Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 2 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 3 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 4 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 5 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose I could try and make them like me , ’ Jessamy said doubtfully . |
| 7 | We 'll try and make it in the morning . |
| 8 | Right , I got a cheque in my pocket made out to pay cash so she said you can go in and cash it on the counter . |
| 9 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 10 | With the weight of John 's head slowly reducing one leg to numbness , I decided to try and explain it to myself . |
| 11 | Can you go and explain it to Mrs when she 's finished talking to Christopher ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 13 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to write and congratulate you on your recent success in the Best Kept Village Competition where you won the award for the Best Kept Farm . |
| 14 | She always accompanied her unpackings by such comments , always with the same indignant implication that the grocers did their best to defraud and anger her with every item . |
| 15 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 16 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 17 | If you do n't have a ‘ fridge , put the food in the coldest place you can find and eat it within one or two days . |
| 18 | How many times have you heard somebody trying to convince and influence you on something , and they 're using negative words . |
| 19 | Remember when she used to stand there and madden you with her politeness and that voice of hers . |
| 20 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 21 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 22 | He gambles that I will not leap down and pursue him along the pavement . |
| 23 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 24 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 25 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 26 | This seminar is designed specifically for all those who come into contact with IBM 's products and terminology and who want to be able to understand and discuss them in order to carry out their jobs more effectively . |
| 27 | But they were quite happy to come along and discuss it with the parish council erm and . |
| 28 | Although he was still charged with assault , the trial was not for two months , which gave her time to wait and discuss it with Charles once he was completely recovered . |
| 29 | No doubt the judge , if he does not agree with the course proposed , is fully entitled to convey that to counsel and discuss it in the absence of the jury . |
| 30 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |