Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 2 | When another few minutes went by she was scratching her head to try and think up some way of making sure that Naylor would consider any such notion laughable . |
| 3 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 4 | So I think you probably need to sit down and try and think out some criteria for yourself about what you want . |
| 5 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 6 | The aim of the gist-listening session was to try and break down this hostility by showing the group that they could understand two native speakers talking ‘ naturally ’ , in this case about a shopping expedition . |
| 7 | The first is to try and bring out some perceptions of the problems of Primary Health Care implementation in South Africa and , in particular , the Apartheid System 's impact on implementation . |
| 8 | I decided to try and sketch out such contexts in the book I wrote about my research . |
| 9 | Even so , I they can go and look up that lot of words in Shakespeare . |
| 10 | The only difference then was the weather for it turned cold and hard , the clouds massing thick above us as if the sky intended to fall and crush out all life on the face of the earth . |
| 11 | The realization that it is a very costly option for a firm to try and lay off all employees and replace them allows ‘ insiders ’ to bargain for a continuing employment relationship and to achieve a greater than labour-market-clearing wage . |
| 12 | Why do n't you go and chase up those roofers for me ? |
| 13 | I 'm afraid I ca n't tell you anything more about Claudia , really , but I 'll try and jot down some memories if you like . ’ |
| 14 | To try and sort out these problems , it is necessary to investigate the context in which fossils are found . |
| 15 | Anderson , often eager to jump around and burn off some frustration , cut the little bald patch on the top of his head , and cursed himself . |
| 16 | ‘ Cyclists should dismount and walk up all gradients greater than 1-in-17 , especially on roads which are poorly constructed and have rocky surfaces . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind that ‘ Abba ’ is the opening word of the Lord 's Prayer in Aramaic , we could rightly say that only through the Spirit can we pray and live out that prayer . |
| 18 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 19 | The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible , except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat . |
| 20 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 21 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 22 | They was heading off to London that night to go and pick up this griddle for this |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want to go and sit down some place ? ’ |