Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 2 | Erm We thought we should try and do something as a kaleidoscope . |
| 3 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 4 | I 'll go and do something for an hour . |
| 5 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 6 | Once you decide to specialize and become something of an expert in any field , you can study through public libraries , further education classes ( providing that there is adequate provision for speechreaders ) , correspondence courses , exhibitions and so on . |
| 7 | can if you want , in the it 's not that far to go around and use one for the whole day . |
| 8 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 9 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 10 | Everyone wants to be able to design and create something with an individual touch , whether it 's an outfit to wear or soft furnishings for the home . |
| 11 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll go and fix something for the kids ’ supper , ’ Leo offered . |
| 13 | It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one 's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one 's ability and beyond , so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself . |
| 14 | Extract 1 A : so if there 's a hardware store we could call in and get one on the way back B : do you think there is one A : yes B : OK then * A : that would be nice would n't it ? |
| 15 | Normally he 's quite happy to go out and grab someone from the street . |
| 16 | All day , they helped Mother to unpack and arrange everything in the rooms . |
| 17 | . The other ideal , which I have n't got round to doing would be to try and appoint somebody on a short term basis . |
| 18 | Right , let's try and talk one at a time now . |
| 19 | However , there is always the remote possibility that you might run down and injure someone in the water , which could cost you as much as £100,000 ! |
| 20 | Did he not go and shoot someone at the clay-pigeon shooting in Ardallt two months ago ! |
| 21 | Freud 's example of the fort-da game in which the child pretends to lose and find something as an enactment within a domain it can control , of its sense of separation from , and the return of the mother , provides a classic case of the problems of how to interpret vicarious activity . |