Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rev David Neil , the Union 's Mission Field worker stressed the need for churches to have a mission strategy or commitment to training or a willingness to reach out and become involved in their communities . |
| 2 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 3 | What was now required was a buyer to come along and recognise ‘ the potential and engineering excellence ’ of the plant . |
| 4 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 5 | As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself . |
| 6 | The paddles are being removed so that the level of water is raised allowing a boat to pass through and continue in deeper water . |
| 7 | As the article states , they were a pleasure to fly in and compared to the Lincolns they were indeed luxurious . |
| 8 | If I 'm going to live , give me a future to live in and a present to build from . |
| 9 | It 's not a defeat to turn back and return on a better day . |
| 10 | The heat of the welding compressed the air inside the tank which , together with the acetylene flame , blew the tank open , causing a flame to shoot out and burn Heinz . ’ |
| 11 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 12 | And for many people , it 's a dream to move on and change your life to something bigger and better . |
| 13 | saying you 've got ta train somebody on the list for instance , you 've got to have a specialist to come in and do that so it 's not something you do yourself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | High gates and fences at the back of your home will make it difficult for a burglar to get in and slip away unnoticed . |
| 16 | If anyone is interested in forming a group to go out and get petitions signed , or anything else we can think of as a group , please will they write to me as soon as possible . |
| 17 | In emergency the person in the seat next to you may be allowed to indicate ‘ slow down ’ by moving his straight right arm gently up and down in front of him ( not in front of you ! ) ; then you will find a place to pull in and stop . |
| 18 | Attractive features include : a lighter product , no tube to create extra weight when working out of the studio , a cheaper product without sacrificing the quality of the pigment , simplification of process , no need for palette and knife , mediums and preparations ; neither is there a need to clean up and put caps back on tubes and tops on bottles at the end of a day 's work ! |
| 19 | There was a need to reach out and put a hand on a person 's shoulder , take her/his arm , hold a hand , thus increasing the repertoire of non-verbal communication with older people . |
| 20 | She also thought Esther would need a hoist to get in and out of the bath . |
| 21 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 22 | It 's a doddle to set up and use — all you have to do is fit the various bits of the printer together and plug it in . |
| 23 | Oh , I wished I still had even my scorpion on a string to run up and down somebody 's back ! |
| 24 | Their husbands think that it is natural for a wife to go out and flaunt her husband 's prosperity and her family 's worth — that is their tiny horizon . |
| 25 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 26 | In these cases the practitioner often receives a telephone call from the local police asking for information regarding one of his ( or her ) clients , followed by a request to come round and see them . |
| 27 | He said she was to go to Ludgate Circus , stand on the south corner of Fleet Street at 6.30 p.m. and wait for a cab to pull in and pick her up . |
| 28 | ‘ She was paid £15 a night to turn up and £15 for every man she sat down with . |
| 29 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 30 | She 's convinced he 's just waiting for a sign to pop over and propose ! ’ |