Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [adv prt] some [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 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want to go and sit down some place ? ’ |