Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot . |
| 2 | One person in the middle is the naughty monkey and has to try and make everybody else either move or laugh . |
| 3 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 4 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 5 | I 'd like to try and do something completely different , but the trouble is , what ? ’ |
| 6 | He agreed that the prison had a long-standing reputation of having a liberal regime and added , ‘ I would have been mad to try and change it radically . |
| 7 | And you have to try and think it differently . |
| 8 | She said it to cover her tremulous awareness of the fact that she was still in his arms , and began gently to try and pull herself away , but he seemed strangely reluctant to let her go . |
| 9 | She needed to get out of Rohan 's orbit for a while — to try and pull herself together , she thought almost frantically . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt he was going to try and hit me again so I stuck my right hand out . |
| 11 | And er yes , I used to try and follow him as much as I could . |
| 12 | And then the woman that would lend them money 'd say , well you 're not having any more , so you 'd got to try and find somebody else who 'd lend you money . |
| 13 | She asked the person who answered her to try and find him as soon as possible and to ask him to contact her in Cairo immediately as there is an extremely urgent matter she needs to talk to him about . |
| 14 | Thankfully Merrill escaped , glad of an opportunity to try and get herself together again . |
| 15 | Terry had invested so much in the project that he was damned sure he was going to try and get it home with him . |
| 16 | ‘ Here the directors do everything to try and keep them away . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 18 | As will become clear , I do not see these questions as independent of each other , but I think it is helpful to try and consider them separately as well as in interaction . |
| 19 | as far as I 'm concerned is to try and kill it as quickly |
| 20 | I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time . |
| 21 | You 're going to try and help us then are you ? |
| 22 | As " Uncle " Bruce goes into his 50s , he continues to accept and involve himself eagerly , whenever possible , in the world outside the studio . |
| 23 | If you go to a thousand she 'll only have to come and do it now cos well I 've won ai n't I ? |
| 24 | She had hoped he might arrange to come and collect her now that he had the car — and now that things were , well , serious between them . |
| 25 | I hope it will provide your parents ’ she stressed the word — ‘ with an excuse to come and visit me more often . ’ |
| 26 | He appeared satisfied when I told him that I did n't have a criminal record and shouted for somebody to come and show me upstairs . |
| 27 | Yes , yeah , cos now , that , see she 's not here really for , for me to come and pay her so I have to take the money down to her house now . |
| 28 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 29 | And want to find something you 've got to root through everything else , you 've got to move everything else and then when you want to come and find something else , you 've moved it . |
| 30 | ‘ Who wants to come and find something more exciting to throw in the water ? ’ he asked . |