Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes . |
| 2 | The Tsars , the Habsburgs and the Ottomans sought to rationalize and industrialize their ramshackle empires in order to protect themselves against the expansionism of the modern West European State . |
| 3 | The crude hides of the tent ceased to billow and bulge . |
| 4 | Bruce Mearns , 34 , of Arns Grove , Alloa , admitted speeding and driving his motorbike with more than one and a half times the legal limit of alcohol on 6 February . |
| 5 | ‘ I got to go and see if Caspar 's 0 . |
| 6 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 7 | I got to go and do all his cleaning . |
| 8 | I got to go and get some potatoes . |
| 9 | And the drink I got to go and get as well . |
| 10 | Mm , just got to go and sort them out , hang on I 'm coming up , I do n't know why you did n't go in the downstairs toilet , it would of been easier for me then would n't it ? |
| 11 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 12 | They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough . |
| 13 | Originally it was believed that this was a simple ‘ smokescreen ’ , a kind of instant fog in which the cuttlefish became hidden and could escape . |
| 14 | In dealing with the difficult topics of his own day he resorted to silence and ambiguity . |
| 15 | Sheepishly , Nathan agreed to go and watch movies with Zambia , casting agonised looks after Ari as he followed hir from the canteen . |
| 16 | David agreed to go and ended up liking it . |
| 17 | Andy agreed to go and help set up and Bob likewise . |
| 18 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 19 | In the past we sought to monitor and control all the major variables in a business . |
| 20 | Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school . |
| 21 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 22 | Er you know but you see , conservative won the election and because what they did was , if you went on strike they they paid you off , you got sacked and you just did n't get any money . |
| 23 | Abandoned air-raid shelters became improvised and treacherous playgrounds for the children of the blitz . |
| 24 | The parties failed to agree and an independent surveyor , acting as an expert , determined the price . |
| 25 | Mann pleaded guilty to taking jeans valued at £37 and £200 in cash while McClelland admitted handling and receiving stolen goods to the value of £92 . |
| 26 | It became increasingly influential during the 1970s , due partly to the decline of functionalism , partly to its promise to provide answers which functionalism failed to provide and partly because it was more in keeping with the tenor and mood of the times . |
| 27 | erm marketing is certainly one one and possibly does needs some more er attention but there were one or two things that that struck me as as er you went by and you asked to comment and and maybe give a small one that there will pick up on . |
| 28 | In the event the Loyal Citizens failed to appear and the only incident occurred when a small group began to sing ‘ God Save the Queen ’ as the demonstrators struck up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ . |
| 29 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 30 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |