Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you are an aesthete , some developments in the industrialised world are bound to offend and hurt you deeply . |
| 2 | She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon . |
| 3 | If they wanted to make an offer she would listen and think it over . |
| 4 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 5 | And you have to try and think it differently . |
| 6 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 7 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 8 | Isabella perceives clearly the game Angelo is playing : here she is angry and frustrated — do n't try and make her too ‘ nice ’ a character . |
| 9 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 10 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 11 | We 'll try and make it tomorrow . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But what I would do is try and make it more popular , with special promotions and so on . |
| 13 | ‘ I must try and make you more comfortable , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 15 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 16 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 17 | I think it might be worthwhile actually so the school can come and bail us out ! |
| 18 | ‘ John and I would trundle up and wind them up . ’ |
| 19 | We 'll we 'll we 'll try and plot it then produce |
| 20 | And he sent them to Bethlehem and said , ‘ Go and search diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him , bring me word again , that I may come and worship him also . ’ |
| 21 | You g you could get down and just start and with the one hour the blower would go and knock you off . |
| 22 | Erm , okay the bogie man would come and eat me up . |
| 23 | You could , for example , frighten a child into conformity with your wishes by saying that erm , you know , if , if the child does n't go to bed at the right time , the bogie man will come and eat them up , or something . |
| 24 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Any second now it would break and throw him back into the river . |
| 27 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 28 | She was to bring samples from the parents and their offspring so that she and Dr Ann Chandley could analyse and discuss them together . |
| 29 | If she had a wallet of money she 'd go and buy them now . |
| 30 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |