Example sentences of "and [vb infin] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Locals predicted that it would be allowed to fall down and then the property developing Mafia would move in and build a housing estate on the fourteen acres , by means of a considerable backhander to the Council . |
2 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
3 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
4 | You 've got to get your casualty from the cause , but make sure it 's safe for you , now if it is a , a place where you 've got to get your casualty out and you have n't got a lifeline and I must express this really that there must be two of you and if you are going in you only go in if you think it is safe to go in and you must have a line attached to you and there 's somebody outside , so that if you do get erm overcome by fumes or whatever , they can pull you out , you are safe , they 'll see to you , if there is no hope , you do n't try to be the hero , what you do is go and make a phone call and get the professionals in , because they do n't want to come along and have to deal with two casualties , when there 's only one . |
5 | ‘ However , I 'm afraid I have to go and make a phone call . ’ |
6 | This , this , you know , is saying something very , very simple , it 's telling you straight away , okay it 's , it is , it is quite nice to have the quote in there again as I say , if somebody , if somebody is trying to do a little advance story , to say , you could all , you could from there you could actually write something which , without having to go back and make a phone call . |
7 | Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing . |
8 | As an encouragement to all knitters to use the book as a source of design inspiration , George le Warré includes a section on colour and design together with a short technical explanation of how to write and adapt a pattern instruction . |
9 | This case arose from a contract under which the pursuers , an engineering company , were to supply and install a conveyor belt system at the premises of the defenders , a brickmaking company . |
10 | Terrorists , blackmailers , burglars , business rivals and the nosey-parkers next door can legally buy and install a phone scanner . |
11 | If you are not fond enough of a paper to buy it in bulk , it would be worth it for a group of friends or a class to get together and buy a mill pack . |
12 | People come here looking for a Rottweiler as a guard dog — I tell them to go and buy a burglar alarm . |
13 | IF I tell you that this is the perfect time to go out and buy a record deck , you will no doubt put me down as the sort of person who invested heavily in Betamax video , eight-track tape and the Sinclair C5 : a sucker for doomed formats . |
14 | Animation Works Interactive is the kind of program that will make you want to go out and buy a Multimedia PC upgrade kit ! . |
15 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
16 | Cambridge , UK-based Tadpole Technology Plc is to develop and manufacture a notebook computer for IBM Corp using the PowerPC RISC under an agreement the two signed on November 24 . |
17 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
18 | Nor can one omit , as an important contributing factor in his decline , the humiliating failure of his own attempts to write and direct a feature film , Yellowbeard , even after some drastic and , by Chapman 's own account , disastrous re-editing by the studio . |
19 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
20 | For example , you can use QBE to build a screen from which you can both view and edit a customer mailing list along with a file that lists each customer 's purchase history . |
21 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
22 | A class can fill and light a replica pottery Roman oil lamp , whereas a 2000-year-old original would need to be handled with great care . |
23 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
24 | Why did you leave such a good hospital to come and do a holiday job ? ’ |
25 | I 'll try and do a little bit more here fine , but it 's really thinking |
26 | In a lecture in 1983 he argued that a civil servant who could answer ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ should retire and become a party politician . |
27 | By cycling in this manner ( Fig. 3 ) , HPr could accept and donate a phosphoryl group by adopting an open conformation suitable for interacting with enzyme I and a closed conformation suitable for interacting with enzyme III . |
28 | It 's easy to sit up here for hours , feeling fresh and invigorated and envying the local people their beautiful surroundings , but we were keen to press on and see a Stone Age burial chamber sited just off the path . |
29 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
30 | However , both the dishes are simple to make and use a 250g pack of LE PREZIOSE which will serve four people . |