Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The legislative plans that I have announced today are designed to consolidate and build on the improvement in industrial relations which we have achieved over the last 12 years . |
| 32 | I remember having to wash and bathe in the river ! ’ |
| 33 | The two sides were a world apart and while Northern hope for successive victories in their final two games for survival , Wigan can relax and prepare for the Silk Cut Cup final at Wembley on May 2 against Castleford . |
| 34 | In Chapman 's view , the foundation of Aston Villa 's long history of success was their ability to plan ahead and prepare for the departure of key players . |
| 35 | Do you ever stop and think about the way you breathe ? |
| 36 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 37 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 38 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 39 | ‘ The gang should also stop and think about the danger they could be in . |
| 40 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 41 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 42 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 43 | Coun Pearson called for a return to the original idea of a chapel of remembrance , where people could sit quietly and think of the ones they have lost . |
| 44 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 45 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 46 | After a court ruling that this was unlawful , Haringey rang round other councils to see if they could borrow and lend on the money to tide it over . |
| 47 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 48 | The result of the survey was ‘ a remarkably even split between managers who were prepared to help and lend to the proprietors and those who were not prepared to do so ’ . |
| 49 | In such circumstances ( known as ‘ the last resort ’ ) the Bank of England will always step in and lend to the discount houses , or purchase bills of exchange from them before the bills have reached maturity . |
| 50 | We watch the train shuffle and rattle across the tracks where we collect blackberries and know , soon , when it gets dark , we will have to come down to collect our shoes . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 52 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 53 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 54 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 55 | Once off the airfield , Stirling gave orders for the jeeps to split up and make for the rendezvous separately , as he was sure that the following morning the sky would be full of angry German fighters out looking for them . |
| 56 | Timelord also has a document database where you can index all your text files wherever they are on your hard disk giving you the ability to search and browse with the built in report viewer . |
| 57 | Timelord also has a document database where you can index all your text files wherever they are on your hard disk giving you the ability to search and browse with the built in report viewer . |
| 58 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 59 | Then we could go home and explain about the envelope and get a fresh one . |
| 60 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |