Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my life down to fish and |
| 2 | And that little Mrs Hayes next door , who she hardly knew , had been a tower of strength , sending her sister in to cook and keep the place going . |
| 3 | Yeah , that unfortunately the majority of people say you 'll get money in a couple of days , then the person would start to argue , because they need their money now to go and buy their shopping . |
| 4 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 5 | It has announced its intention not to borrow and therefore will not expose investors to levels of high gearing . |
| 6 | Blinking her eyes rapidly to try and clear her head , Sarah said , ‘ Come inside and I 'll go and look . ’ |
| 7 | Yorkshire Bank , a regional bank owned by National Australia Bank , put its clearing out to tender and received lots of bids ; RBS retained the business . |
| 8 | There is a feeling that they need to develop educational approaches that are based on indigenous conceptions of social service rather than Western urban industrial models and that they should be seeking ways of maximizing the contribution of front-line personnel , either through the direct provision of training or by teaching their graduates how to train and make optimum use of front-line workers ( University Grants Commission , 1980 ; Siddiqui , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | He screwed his neck around to try and find the enemy . |
| 10 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 11 | Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge . |
| 12 | you put your glasses on to try and see , and you ca n't pluck the eyebrows because the glasses are in the way so we do quite a lot of eyebrow trimming , erm at salon . |