Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We invite you to come and eavesdrop on their story . |
| 2 | Ask at least one other person to read and comment on your final draft too ! |
| 3 | Oh yes she was very keen was n't she when she used to come and stay with her Grandma ? |
| 4 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 5 | And er I 'd come up and stay with my brother in Holyhead about two or three times a week . |
| 6 | Did she come and stay with your family every Christmas ? |
| 7 | " I would like to invite you to come and stay at my house , " he said . |
| 8 | " When you think of the relations we had with the most countries , " said the Queen later , " and suddenly they do n't care to talk to you , or write to you , ask you to come and stay in their country … |
| 9 | But to actually come and stay in his home ! |
| 10 | I was going to say , you say you do n't have to watch it , well you want to come and stay in my house ! |
| 11 | " I wish I could come and stay in your hotel with you . |
| 12 | ‘ And then , ’ Corbett interrupted smoothly , ‘ she allowed the royal whore to come and stay in your midst ? ’ |
| 13 | They sauntered and stopped without warning and she had to duck and weave through their chattering bunches . |
| 14 | There they were able to organise the farming families , and many new arrivals , to spin and weave in their homes in many scattered cottages and hamlets . |
| 15 | It was designed to impress and overawe by its sheer size : 262 metres long and 41 metres high at its highest point , over the transept . |
| 16 | ‘ Approval of these plans will enable us to retain and build on our existing workforce , which is what we want to do , otherwise we would have to find a completely new site , probably out of Wales , too far away for most of our existing employees . ’ |
| 17 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 18 | It is through these means that the people , our people , all the people in this city many of them bound together and then able to go out and think about their civic lives if you like , their civic , the way th that this council works perhaps and take part much more in just go in and putting little crosses on pieces of paper maybe . |
| 19 | His latest series is probably his best yet and will make many people stop and think about their own lives and relationships . |
| 20 | We ask that they may know of your daily provision of all kinds of needs , and especially for Rob 's studies , that he may be able to learn and think with Your mind at all times . |
| 21 | I would talk and laugh with my companions but withdraw , lapsing into silence , when I was offered any food . |
| 22 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 23 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 24 | Anyway , after a while , during that sun-bleached , snowblind vigil of booze and lies and pornography , the girls tended to mangle and dismember in my mind . |
| 25 | The Old English Longhorn was prevalent in Ireland and the west of England , particularly northern Lancashire , southern Westmorland and the Craven district in Yorkshire , and it has been described as rough in the shoulder , flat-sided , light in the hindquarters , thick-necked , lean of flesh , thick of skin , slow to grow and slow in its movements — a very useful draught animal , in fact . |
| 26 | Instead she took refuge in the library where she could read and research to her heart 's content . |
| 27 | It appeared to roll forward and unfold under its own natural momentum , to reach its clearly defined objectives . |
| 28 | Fear of the owl makes the birds want to flee and anger at its obtrusive presence makes them want to attack . |
| 29 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 30 | Ask him if he wants to come and knock at my door . |