Example sentences of "and [vb infin] with a " in BNC.

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1 But although the cane continued to rise and fall with a terrible regularity , and they continued to hear the awful blows landing , no sound came from their brother .
2 However , out of its ruin , yet composed from its constituent parts , a new machine began to thrive and grow with a power of its own .
3 ‘ It 's hard for people to really understand and identify with a problem , whether it 's Aids , Somalia or pollution , until they really get to see it first hand , ’ reflects Hines .
4 One of the most common ways of providing training for intermediaries is by letting them observe and work with a trained searcher .
5 Then the man voted Britain 's most-polite interviewer said : ‘ I might go and celebrate with a beer and a bag of crisps now . ’
6 In the 28th minute he collected a Peschsllibo pass to turn and score with a low shot into the far corner of the net .
7 From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne .
8 They quite fail to conceal the troubled human shallowness of all the raunch they profess so coolly and brightly to place and displace with a laugh . ’
9 She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together .
10 When a son or daughter decides to settle down and live with a partner for the foreseeable future , rather than getting married , the situation is different .
11 This is not surprising since we have to think and write with a vocabulary which we share with lay persons .
12 This Brazilian team can mark and tackle with a cool realism that their 1974 World Cup side never achieved in West Germany , when toughness became confused with thuggery .
13 The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming .
14 ( d ) Meech held that the accused was under an obligation to retain and deal with a cheque if he believed that he was under such a duty , though in fact he was not .
15 Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ .
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