Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 32 | And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’ |
| 33 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 34 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 35 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 36 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |
| 37 | Historians will find rich material , and so will the general reader prepared to browse and surrender to the many different idioms , rhythms and personalities revealed here . |
| 38 | Companies trying to succeed and survive in the '90s are under growing pressure to give a quality service , often with reduced resources . |
| 39 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 40 | By self-determination we mean the right for us to associate and integrate with the unitary state , or , as a nation , to secede . ’ |
| 41 | I was allowed to get up and dress on the tenth day after Heather 's birth , and go to the day room of the hospital ready to go to my billet at the fortnight . |
| 42 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 43 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 44 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 45 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 46 | He shared with his wife Harriet a passion for fly-fishing and gardening and he made no secret of the fact that his years of retirement , when they were able to fish and garden to the full , were the happiest of his life . |
| 47 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 48 | And that 's what we 've got ta try and do in the next , next few weeks really . |
| 49 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |
| 50 | ( d ) Transfer A reminder to prepare and send to the other side for approval the draft transfer in duplicate . |
| 51 | A Committee sponsored by the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government to " look at problems arising out of the apparent failure … of government and industry to work together effectively " argued that " industrialists have been justified in recent years in criticising the government for failing to provide a stable economic framework within which they can plan and invest in the long-term " . |
| 52 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 53 | In this way every general practitioner could shape and contribute to the future research and development of primary care . |
| 54 | And because you are so much older , you would n't see yourself as competing for the same resources , and you would probably have matured in ways emotionally , that would make you accept and identify with the parental values , rather than , than feel sad or , or resentful , because you felt you were more like your brother , as it were , and you were being discriminated against . |
| 55 | Try to push and lift at the same time — go on , try to get the back wheels off the ground as you go along ! |
| 56 | So if you 'd like to go down the stairs there there are some coats oh your coats and things and I will er go and come and join you and we 'll we 'll take off and look at the outside . |
| 57 | and you could go and look at the local one and talk to the people there and see what they 're doing and |
| 58 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 59 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 60 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |