Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It became an effort to communicate and therefore problems were not talked through .
2 Erm , it would seem sensible if we look across the whole commission to try and even things out .
3 However , she continued to write and then Meehan himself sent the first of many letters , beginning , ‘ Dear Mr Kennedy , I am serving a Life imprisonment for a horrible murder in which I was never involved . ’
4 Some children have little idea of how to chew and so parents demonstrating biting and chewing and talking about it shows the child how to do it .
5 And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best .
6 Thursday 's better for us to go and then nanny took it apart .
7 The needles began to fall and gradually families stopped coming .
8 But Colette knew exactly what to buy and now Raymond will actually grunt : I 've passed .
9 To the perfect , shifting sands where they planned to sunbathe and then camp overnight .
10 As always the supporting organisations have been ready to help and thankfully TRANSAID continues to exist because of the support .
11 Each hamlet , village , town or city in the country has a chance to win and here Harold 's devilishly clever thinking emerges .
12 This legal bonanza was obviously too good to last and ultimately matters were brought to a head in a series of compromises , as a result of which the lease was forfeited but the plaintiffs abandoned all its money claims in the relevant action other than for arrears of rent , and — and for the present purposes this is the crucial matter — the plaintiff released the surety unconditionally from his personal guarantee contained in the licence of 3 December 1973 .
13 When the motion was carried , bottles and fists began to fly and unfortunately Mr Bence was ejected when the police had to be called .
14 The usual sequence of events is for the otter to dive and then surface clutching both a mollusc and a rock .
15 Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed .
16 The newly created module has failed to scan and therefore entry into LIFESPAN has not been attempted .
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