Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [to-vb] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had simply eaten one after another to try and stem the feelings of anxiety within her . |
| 2 | If a church finds itself divided but comes together in spite of this to pray and fast and repent and seek God for a renewal of love , then unity and power can be restored from within and a breakthrough occur . |
| 3 | They used to say Bomber Wells was hardest of all to read and gather . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're driving like this to try and prove something , do n't bother on my account , ’ she said . |
| 5 | He believed , very simply , that every problem can be solved by honest , sensible people , and that the political life of a country must have no secrets and must be open for all to see and understand . |
| 6 | The deceased loved one would have been left for all to come and see , and grieve over , and most importantly to say goodbye to . |
| 7 | The approach adopted by Goudie is to separate physical geography into its conventional divisions of vegetation , animals , soil , water , geomorphology and atmosphere and in a chapter on each to identify and illustrate the effect of human activity on environment and upon processes . |
| 8 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |