Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb infin] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 2 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 3 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 4 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 5 | Immune to sound and smell and in no hurry to escape , he pauses at every bale of raw wool , every bolt of half-finished cloth , tugging at it , scrunching it up , letting it slip through his fingers to satisfy himself that all is well . |
| 6 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 7 | Women recognize that some of their tears are tears of weakness , and these are the tears which come as an alternative to rage and anger or as a way of coping with their feelings of powerlessness . |
| 8 | It also has the added advantage that , by spreading a canopy over the on-board crane , a shelter can be made in which to sleep and cook when in harbour . |
| 9 | I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think . |
| 10 | The alternatives are either up to 25% additional time ( because some people take longer to read and write because of the specific difficulty ) or the use of an emendatory writer or whatever the psychologist may recommend . |
| 11 | I did try and move because of what you said |
| 12 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 13 | Dangerous circumstances as in these two examples are often easier for parents to understand and realize that in fact they do exert effective control at some times . |
| 14 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 15 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 16 | I might just go and see that on Saturday |
| 17 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 18 | ‘ AND WE DO HEREBY FURTHER ORDER AND DECLARE THAT from and after the said twenty-first day of this instant September the said directors of the poor within the town of Bedford shall cease to act and intermeddle as such Directors in the management and government of the poor within the said parishes … ’ . |