Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes it an offence to promote or conduct or assist in the conduct of a mock auction . |
| 2 | ( pp167-8 ) ( g ) Criminal use of ineffective exemption clauses Under the Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) , it is a criminal offence for anyone , in the course of a business , to display or publish or include in a written document , an exemption clause which is void by virtue of s6 of UCTA 1977 . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs ' contentions under this heading do not seek to cut down or erode or encroach upon the privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 4 | If you are rejected the most constructive thing you can do is to phone or write and ask for the reasons why . |
| 5 | The baths provided warm rooms in winter , as in the large , moderately heated room ( the tepidarium ) , and cool , shady gardens in summer , where strollers could walk or sit and relax under the roofed peristyles which surrounded the open courts . |
| 6 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 7 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 8 | I believe I understand what makes the heart of Britain beat , what inspires all those millions of families across the land to go out each day to work and strive and create for the future . |
| 9 | every anthropologist has experienced ‘ culture shock ’ ; a temporary inability to grasp and act and think in the terms of the assumptions upon which the newly entered culture is based . |
| 10 | Trees did not whisper and murmur and chuckle with an evil malevolence … |
| 11 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 12 | Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed . |
| 13 | You will look after the fast buck merchants who are waiting to come in to steal and cheat and to deal in a shoddy , grasping way with bus companies that have been made successful by the local authorities . " |
| 14 | It would erode the precious British freedom , gained at considerable cost over several centuries , to shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faiths of our forefathers . |
| 15 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 16 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |
| 17 | I could then sit and relax and listen to the other violinists . |
| 18 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |
| 19 | We 've brought forward the Readers Poll slightly this year so that we can swoon and rail and curse at the results as part of our New Year offensive . |
| 20 | and it 's , and then you can book up and go and eat on the verandah or you can eat in one of the restaurants and just walk round and sit on the , any of the seats . |
| 21 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 22 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 23 | And then Kimmy can come and visit and play in the garden ! |