Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The company notes that the action signals its ability to use early redemption or repurchase programmes as part of continuing efforts to reduce debt and make best use of its cash .
2 In order to control and make best use of their budget , GPs must have full knowledge of the cost and scope of the services they are purchasing .
3 Doubtless local authorities will want to have their say in the matter , but let's hope that soon we will be finding woodworking workshops and factories in amongst our trees , and making best use of our most readily renewable resource .
4 And did any ask of you , towards the end of the evening , to help him hoist a long bundle on to the wagon with the wood ? ’ asked Cadfael , directly but without much expectation , and shook to the simple answer .
5 Boswell burst out laughing and could not stop — the very idea : that Johnson , ‘ that majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom ’ , should keep a harem , and had often thought of it .
6 Indeed , Alain Sroufe at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota , urges that we stop trying to find the response in the child 's physiology , and learn instead to think of it as an ‘ organisational construct ’ , an economic way in which the experimenter can characterise the pattern of behavioural linkages between the child and its environment .
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