Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 2 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 3 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 4 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | can lie and squirm in a sewer . |
| 9 | Then we must all get together and think of a plan . ’ |
| 10 | I tend to live on my pension and , even when I see something I need , I will try and think of a reason to manage without . |
| 11 | Killion was too exhausted by the feeble air , and the cold , and the need to watch the airfield , to try and think of a reason . |
| 12 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 13 | It was frightening how hunger and lack of sleep could make you behave and think like a real bastard . |
| 14 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |
| 15 | The answer is that to improve fitness , the body needs to respond and adapt to a gradual and continual increase in training load . |
| 16 | The organisation is regarded as a ‘ green field ’ , able and willing both to accept and adapt to a completely changed information systems environment . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She felt his chest rise and fall on a long , slightly unsteady intake of breath . |
| 20 | And as he did so he continued to speak , letting his voice rise and fall like a flowing stream , lulling the sleeping child . |
| 21 | ‘ Frank , ’ I said , ‘ if we do n't agree on the running order then surely it is something we should sit down and discuss as a team . ’ |
| 22 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 23 | To prevent the spread of infection by airborne droplets , people should cough and sneeze into a handkerchief , preferably a paper one which can be disposed of by burning or flushing down the toilet . |
| 24 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 25 | The obligation of modesty is on both men and women ; men are also required to dress and behave in a modest way . |
| 26 | I 'll try and behave in a more grown-up fashion … " |
| 27 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 28 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 29 | I like doing jobs where I can get down and concentrate for a period |
| 30 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |