Example sentences of "and [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Store detectives work about seven hours a day , including breaks , and tend to earn from £8,000-£10,000 per year To avoid getting too well known , they have a patch of around 10 shops which they patrol on a rota basis . |
| 2 | They have less opportunity to make new friendships and tend to depend for companionship on the continuity of longstanding relationships . |
| 3 | Teachers who use Breakthrough find that their pupils become conscious of the construction of words , and tend to play with words in a way which is helpful for their spelling . |
| 4 | In this respect , pregnant girls at Arbour are also very knowledgeable and confident about giving birth because they have been so well prepared for it , and tend to sail through labour and birth without a lot of problems . |
| 5 | These fibrotic processes are rare and tend to occur in isolation , although a number of overlap syndromes has been reported with multiple organ involvement . |
| 6 | Her assignment for C 's Circus was to manipulate men of power and influence to work towards unity with the British Commonwealth in their desperate fight for world freedom . |
| 7 | Insert needle on same row between centre loops , from front to back , take needle behind work and bring to front between loops at right , four rows higher . |
| 8 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 9 | When you get rich you find that the rich are soft and stupid and want to talk about parties for their daughters . |
| 10 | Tell Edgar I still love him and Catherine , and want to return to Thrushcross Grange , but I ca n't ! |
| 11 | Now East Germans are shipping their own people in sealed trains through their own country to the West , and police fight back thousands who block the tracks and want to jump on board . |
| 12 | It is easy to fall into the trap of looking for causal relations between what we ( the education community ) do and what pupils achieve , and forget to take into account our pupils ' own efforts , perceptions and experiences . |
| 13 | such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it . |
| 14 | Trying to locate a particular noise in a built-up area , for instance , can be tricky , since sounds are reflected off buildings and appear to come from places other than where they are . |
| 15 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 16 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 17 | He and wife Margaret have just enjoyed a holiday in America and hope to return in October . |
| 18 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 19 | Those of the dragonfly are placed on either side of the head and seem to act as horizon detectors . |
| 20 | It may also be helpful to those who dine at Italian restaurants and seem to suffer from Luigi 's syndrome . |
| 21 | They stay up late , are slow to get going in the morning , and seem to gain in strength as the day wears on . |
| 22 | The report , by Professor Michael Zander , of the London School of Economics , criticised United States legislation on the confiscation and forfeiture of assets as being too wide-ranging and open to abuse by prosecutors . |
| 23 | It is then dead tissue , and open to attack by coral spot fungus . |
| 24 | To make a copy , start both machines together from off play-pause and record-pause respectively and run to end of recording . |
| 25 | Each night for the next two or three weeks , the army makes another long march through the forest until the grubs , which have been feeding voraciously , are fully grown and begin to turn into pupae . |
| 26 | But after that , we come right back here and get to work with Ari . |
| 27 | ‘ And visit to check on progress from time to time ? |
| 28 | Hooded brass or chrome floor lamps make especially good reading lamps since they can be moved around to various chairs or sofas , and set to shine on books , or they can be directed onto a wall or ceiling . |
| 29 | NO MATTER how talented or hardworking you are , if you 're a woman it always takes extra effort and drive to succeed in business . |
| 30 | Cover and allow to cook without colouring until soft . |