Example sentences of "[prep] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they 're able to do with that money this year and in that way we can make a reasonable assessment as to what has to be done next year and the years after and budget all , but we 're talking about how they 're going to spend the money that we 've just earlier on voted for , for us so that we can see what is being done and also that the public can see because after all this all came up , the report to the ombudsman and the public will not be satisfied about our performance on that . |
| 2 | What will now happen is that er the contractor will regrade the land , erm but we will grass-seed it erm with Don , er our groundsman will look after and maintain that er so that it 'll be reinstated er over the next er six months . |
| 3 | Now I do n't know what to do , I was going to write to Cathy after and thank her |
| 4 | If they were after foxes they would have either had several nets to cover all the holes or a dog such as a lurcher to chase after and catch the fox . |
| 5 | After fertilization one or both of the parents may look after and help to rear the offspring . |
| 6 | It is really for a business with more than three vehicles to look after and keep track of . |
| 7 | That you 'll look after and keep us safe until the end of the day . |
| 8 | They let me look after and feed two piglets when I was a little girl and they were really friendly and affectionate . |
| 9 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 10 | He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun . |
| 11 | come up after and say , ah , that bit late for |
| 12 | Mr Gairns noted that proprieties were properly observed : ‘ a separate entrance to this department direct from the Stratford Road enables the girls to enter after and leave before the male employees . |
| 13 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |
| 14 | Verses 29–33 : the Merarites are to look after and transport the framework — pillars , pegs , cords — also under Ithamar 's supervision . |
| 15 | Students should , through assignments , be required to make use of and apply knowledge and competences across a wide spectrum of situations . |
| 16 | The task of the student of politics is to discern the distinctive features of that continuity and change , to generate concepts , and , if possible , to construct models and theories that will aid understanding of and serve to explain those distinctive features and the relationship among them . |
| 17 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 18 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 19 | As an alternative , the seller sometimes agrees that the agreement can be suspended during the period of his inability to supply , so that the buyer can go elsewhere during that period , but is obliged to return to the seller ( subject to any transition period needed to take delivery of and consume orders placed with third parties ) when he is next in a position to supply . |
| 20 | The detail of the Act and regulations made under it will be discussed later , in chapter 6 , in the light of what the main body of this report will show about how consumers think of and use credit . |
| 21 | We then take those kind of and use it in an ocean to create the state of the ocean . |
| 22 | We needed a word processor that anybody could sit in front of and use quickly and easily . |
| 23 | Under another draft , SAS 500 , the previous optional procedure for external auditors to consider the activities of and gain a sufficient understanding of an internal audit function in planning the audit becomes a requirement . |
| 24 | The cost of and gain four bedrooms |
| 25 | This method of bandaging provides a firm grip that is less likely to slide of and fall in festoons during the ensuing bout . |
| 26 | I am grateful to him for pausing for a second , at the end of a busy day , to take note of and observe the great benefits to his constituents and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) as a result of the establishment of the new trust . |
| 27 | From the 1860s , however , growing numbers of those who had no desire to question or to alter the nature of the economic system became uneasy about the prevailing diagnosis of the causes of and cure for poverty . |
| 28 | In this state his spirit was said to fly to the other world of spirits and there discover the cause of and cure for a person 's illness , the identity of a malefactor , or the nature of events destined to occur . |
| 29 | Pupils are able , through reading and responding to literature , to develop an understanding of and control over an ever-widening range of written forms . |
| 30 | Women have been at the forefront of many community health initiatives , reclaiming knowledge of and control over their own bodies ; redefining their own experience of health and illness ; rejecting inappropriate high-tech birthing methods ; questioning the over-prescribing of drugs ; revitalising the role of traditional medicine . |