Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand came up to rub her forehead to try and make her think more clearly . |
| 2 | to try and stop them wasting away . |
| 3 | That 's , that 's , yeah that 's the special edition which is the one er just , you know , to try and help you sell better and that 's the , that 's the other possibility , the |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ Carrie promised and remembered she had once said ‘ Do n't laugh ’ to him . |
| 5 | The only significant modifications involve shift and slide which increase slightly ( by up to roughly 0.4Å ) . |
| 6 | We should ask the people what they want and trust them to answer sensibly . |
| 7 | Well not till I , we 'll wait and see what happens now . |
| 8 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 9 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 10 | Would they accept what he had said and let them go rather than cause a scene ? |
| 11 | Howard looks into the shop windows as he passes and sees himself walking eagerly along . |
| 12 | The curriculum should help learners acquire and develop ( i ) knowledge and conceptual understanding , ( ii ) skills , ( iii ) personal qualities and attitudes , so that they will be able ( iv ) to take advantage of opportunities and cope with challenges in the various circumstances of their present and future lives — to enable and encourage them to contribute responsibly and constructively to society ( in its various facets ) and so that their personal lives may be enriched . |
| 13 | So the meetings are packed really with organizing and trying you know democratically to decide who we 're going to have to speak and the balance of speakers and er where we 're going to march from and who 's gon na invite the band and who 's gon na do this and who 's gon na do that you know . |
| 14 | We get all , I , all he comes home , we works the horses in the morning and goes and stays you see overnight and |
| 15 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 16 | And it certainly got er the community spirit going and got everyone working together . |
| 17 | Earlier Mr Johnson had agreed and said he wanted more professional discipline . |
| 18 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 19 | The Gendarme nodded and told me to wait outside . |
| 20 | She nodded and watched him walk away . |
| 21 | However , as oceanic lithosphere ages , cools and thickens it becomes more dense than the asthenosphere and rests upon it in an unstable state . |
| 22 | We would tread very carefully but we have done this sort of thing before and we would try and make him realise just what he 's doing to himself . ’ |
| 23 | that you can try and get them to say well is that sort of moderately vivid or very vivid or very very vivid or absolutely compelling just like real life or erm I , I do n't know what , what , what you 'd be able to do erm it 's obviously got ta be something that you can present orally |
| 24 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 25 | This is a superficial view of psychoanalytic theory , because it fails to see that the prime objective of Freud is not merely to explain the ‘ odd ’ actions of neurotics or primitives , but to use their actions to understand and explain what counts as ‘ normal ’ and ordinary action in Western societies . |
| 26 | How did she relax and let herself trust again , after what Mortimer had done to her . |
| 27 | She shuddered and forced herself to breathe deep . |
| 28 | Parents who give in to a toddler 's temper will increase the likelihood of tantrums recurring and find themselves becoming more angry . |
| 29 | And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club . |
| 30 | The occasion to hold and secure it came almost immediately , when Nicandra 's precious dog was heard crying pitifully in the depths of the watery culvert . |