Example sentences of "and [vb infin] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various suggestions were made , and the final plan was that Patsy , her husband and their two little boys should come and stay in a hotel in our village for the weekend . |
| 2 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 3 | can lie and squirm in a sewer . |
| 4 | the rise of the Country Dancing Clubs was maybe be to kind of try and compensate in a way for the dances themselves going down , ordinary dances , folk were wanting to do the Scottish dancing and things ? |
| 5 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 6 | I 'll try and behave in a more grown-up fashion … " |
| 7 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 8 | In the most dreadful weather he would stand and wait in a wet grove of ash and hazel for a shot at a woodcock . |
| 9 | The Christian ideal was more the saint than the sage : men and women who made the world to come seem present now rather than those who knew how to live and survive in a stormy and dangerous society . |
| 10 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
| 11 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 12 | There are so many things to see and do in a short stay . |
| 13 | Dolphins have developed many adaptations to survive and succeed in a marine and , to a lesser extent , freshwater environment . |
| 14 | The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work . |
| 15 | If the summer weather has brought out your sporty side , do n't feel you 've got to rush out and invest in a bank-breakingly expensive pair of trainers . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll go and look in a boat . ’ |
| 17 | It is important to note that the decision to export and import in a free market economy is not made by the country as a collective unit . |
| 18 | If you want to learn more about horses you either have to go and work in a training yard or enrol for a college-based course — right ? |
| 19 | IXI describes the software as a virtual workspace — the product enables users to operate and work in a windowing environment that extends well beyond the physical space constraint of their monitor , as if they were sitting at a huge screen . |
| 20 | Here at last , people have an abundant society where all benefit and all are free to live and work in a flexible , creative way . |
| 21 | Conversely , where an uneven and granulated wash is desirable ( such as in a mixture of ultramarine and burnt umber , which tends to separate and granulate in a very attractive way and is a good alternative to the deadening effects of lamp black ) then water with a high mineral content should be used by stirring a teaspoonful of cement powder or plaster into about half a pint of water , allowing the solids to settle and using the relatively clear overlying liquid . |
| 22 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 23 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 24 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 25 | The man behind him , holding the Skorpion with practised casualness , not the careful tension of one unused to handguns ; balanced , relaxed , self-confident , knowing he could bring the machine-pistol to aim and fire in a fraction of a second . |
| 26 | Kammerer must have been inadvertently imposing massive selection pressure on the eggs , weeding out all those eggs that were unlikely to survive and develop in a watery environment . |
| 27 | An important fault in Freud 's work at this point is the failure to allow for a difference in the content of the ideas which leaders may espouse and develop in a group . |
| 28 | They are really one-way traffic systems in which several streams of vehicles can mix and circulate in a clockwise direction only . |
| 29 | These body-builder types , particularly , can preen and pout in a manner which some ladies might find rather suggestive , only to have their hopes dashed when the guy starts telling anecdotes about his boyfriend 's expertise in the sack . |
| 30 | and on believing that they deserve , and are capable of inspiring , love and lust , but such self-esteem is difficult to achieve and maintain in a sexual void . |