Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also mustering troops , and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son . |
| 2 | Staff appropriate to Florey 's aims had to be recruited and grants to pay them obtained from outside bodies . |
| 3 | have their quality problems , that 's where you can score over but the prices are very very low and tend to pick them up . |
| 4 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 5 | We succeed in operating them profitably , but the big national breweries regard such pubs as non-viable and tend to close them or sell them off , with inevitable consequences in the form of unemployment . |
| 6 | And tend to assume I have to do this anyway . |
| 7 | The lights I work under can get really hot and tend to dry it out so I have to be extra careful . |
| 8 | ‘ I love animals and hate to see them killed , ’ said Clara McKay , 81 . |
| 9 | Also , I love animals and hate to see them suffer . |
| 10 | They should last a long time , and can be stripped down and boiled to clean them . |
| 11 | I was told that your Earl Siward had the army of Alba immobilised in the south , and expected to overwhelm it . |
| 12 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 13 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 14 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 15 | I did think about it and asked to see him again , and once again he visited me with Patrick Nairne . |
| 16 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 17 | Shortly after the shooting at the cottage at Tully-West , a man telephoned and asked to meet him . |
| 18 | In a well-known experiment , subjects were shown playing-cards for a small duration of time and asked to identify them . |
| 19 | According to Gregory , Gundobad murdered Chilperic , and exiled Chlothild ; Clovis , however , learnt about the girl , and asked to marry her ; Gundobad was afraid to refuse . |
| 20 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 21 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 22 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 23 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 24 | This entailed stopping on the Works premises and calling the fire station at intervals or in the event of a fire , informing them and helping to put it out . |
| 25 | And erm come here a young girl and a baby , and helping to install her in in on one of the flats , and just sort of e th there was something erm happened to be wrong with one of the rubbish chutes at that time , and we were actually kicking our way through rubbish on the stairs , erm near the chute to get erm to come up . |
| 26 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 27 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 28 | Fast and clever , Roy was a typical inside man of his day , but he was better than most and had a successful career with Palace , providing the ideal foil to the mercurial Johnny Byrne and helping to make us a respected side in Division 3 before leaving for Portsmouth in the summer of 1963 . |
| 29 | In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible . |
| 30 | Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris . |