Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Businesses now have a lower pound — that means a golden opportunity to invest and export into new markets . |
| 2 | Citing ‘ the absence of significant interaction ’ between the museum and the mall these two ‘ sites of consumer culture ’ Ms Greenberg condemned ‘ the Western museum 's inability to acknowledge and respond to this new presence ’ , i.e. , the mall , labelling it ‘ one more episode in a history which continues to separate art and life , the past and the present ’ . |
| 3 | Despite the imperfections of the documents , he felt to the full his responsibility to preserve and hand over intact to his successor all the rights , privileges , and possessions of which he was the divinely constituted guardian . |
| 4 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 5 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 6 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 8 | ALEX WYLLIE , THE FORMER All Black coach , has accepted a two-year contract to work and coach in South Africa . |
| 9 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 10 | ‘ And then , ’ Corbett interrupted smoothly , ‘ she allowed the royal whore to come and stay in your midst ? ’ |
| 11 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 12 | Under a contract for work and materials which involves the production of a finished product , it is almost certain that obligations analogous to those in a simple sale will be implied , so that the supplier will be required to deliver the finished product , and the buyer to accept and pay for it . |
| 13 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 14 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 15 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 16 | One day the King in a fit of caprice , sent a message to Kabir to come and sing before him . |
| 17 | I put my Knights to work and drift into sleep . |
| 18 | The international aims of the symposia are the following : To promote inter-institutional collaborative research ; To allow junior researchers to meet and discuss with established researchers ; To engender interest in , and enthusiasm for , infancy research ; To produce publications , with contributions from the symposium attenders ; To serve as a major focus for infancy research in this country . |
| 19 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 20 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 21 | The buffet provided at this year 's Meeting with the opportunity to meet and chat with other members does not seem to have had sufficient appeal to justify another evening out . |
| 22 | The lady Anne has talked of little else since she met you and would be overjoyed , I know , were you able in due course to come and live with us . |
| 23 | It is like the tiny mustard seed which grows into a sizeable bush that provides sufficient shade for the birds to come and shelter in its branches ( Matt. |
| 24 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 25 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 26 | Learning that your loved one is having an affair is a body-blow to trust and poison to self-esteem . |
| 27 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 28 | Once or twice a year he 'll go even further and invite a business writer to come and talk to his people . |
| 29 | When the venture was launched in 1970 , Elaine Moss had a ‘ mere ’ 2,000 titles to sift and select from . |
| 30 | Lermontov left his seat to go and neck with Tsvetaeva , and Solzhenitsyn gave up his place at the front to go back and chat to Gogol and Pushkin . |