Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The scene in the book where Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time and goes and has a conversation with Wilcox , that 's four pages , which would take 15 minutes in playing time if you acted it out .
2 Then , once the ads have been developed , it is the media person 's job to identify the specific places where they should appear , and to plan and cost a media schedule for the campaign .
3 It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral .
4 The ability to organise a classroom , a group or an individual child , to structure experience so that learning not only occurs at the moment of teaching but remains ; the sensitivity to perceive the world from a child 's perspective , the understanding to build for tomorrow upon the child 's present , and to know and appreciate a child 's weaknesses and strengths — these are the skills which are the basis for a teacher 's claim to ‘ professionalism ’ .
5 The Doctor , Ian , Susan and Carol travel down to the Sense-Sphere capital , with John , whom the Sensorites have offered to cure , to meet the rulers and to try and negotiate a settlement of their differences .
6 And it was to look at basic supermarket products really that are sourced from the Third World , and to try and have a standard that you could say , yes , that 's been traded fairly .
7 We sang ( in canon most of the time ) learnt new dances and a little German , we wined and dined and held a most memorable party on the Friday evening .
8 For a time ‘ tumultuous thoughts like masterless Hell hounds did roar and bellow and make a noise within me … .
9 Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky !
10 Planning department 's role is then to ensure that plans are prepared , to help the chief executive to review the proposed plans , and to consolidate and present a total corporate-wide plan .
11 We were ordinary seafaring men and founding and running a national union was , to say the least , a job for which we had had no training .
12 It is not a good idea to sit in front of a warm fire and relax while having a quiet read as this may cause drowsiness .
13 In ‘ 87 , Nick had been in Athens as one of the team that lured Fawaz Younis to a boat out of territorial waters , and put the handcuffs on him , and read him the charges of Air Piracy and placing a destructive device aboard an aircraft and committing violence aboard an aircraft and aiding and abetting a hijacking .
14 ‘ It must be hell for you living with flesh that bubbles and erupts and goes a ghastly shade of taramasalata —
15 Our brief extended beyond looking at the prevalence of heroin use and included documenting the impact of the ‘ epidemic ’ on the local community , evaluating service provision and recommending and updating a strategy for dealing with the negative effects of widespread heroin use .
16 This is felt to be an inadequate preparation for the work of life , because it tends to produce a super-abundant supply of an indifferent clerkly class and to create and foster a distaste for agriculture and the handicrafts , which are more indispensable to the country and are better calculated to promote independence of character .
17 Experience : the extent to which a practitioner is able to integrate her/his skills and knowledge in the assessment process , to communicate and liaise effectively with a wide range of individuals , to analyse and evaluate and reach a professional judgement about questions of need and risk , will be partly contingent on the professional confidence and sensitivity derived from experience .
18 Still some people go and stop and have a look at it like .
19 ( 7.3 ) we may purchase an equal number of shares and put and write a similar number of calls .
20 I think there is a case for old medicines , but I think that doctors are sometimes too conservative and the public are sometimes too conservative getting advice from their mother-in-law or from granny erm and going and buying a granny 's remedy , whereas in fact there 's something modern available which would be much more effective and perhaps much safer .
21 16.48 The record of the continuous assessment should cover what the child has read ; the child 's reading strategies and approaches when handling a familiar text , levels of comprehension ; retrieval of information ; and the child 's reading tastes and preferences .
22 For 25 minutes , fabulous figures and floats that owe a great deal to fibre optics and underlit , liquid-nitrogen smoke glide past in a dazzle of light and changing colour .
23 These days it is imperative — if you want success , anyway — to be able to get about the field and give and take a pass nearly as well as a back .
24 All accounts , books , ledger , financial and other records of whatsoever kind of the Vendor relating to the Business are in the possession of the Vendor and give and reflect a true and fair view of all transactions entered into and of the financial and contractual position of the Business and of its assets and liabilities in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and standards and statutory requirements .
25 I 'm fed up to here with being liked and admired and called a proper bloody goldmine and the next Barbra Streisand .
26 It encourages woman-centred psychologists to ignore the wider discursive structuring of methodology , and to assume that revaluing a traditionally female-identified method positively guarantees its feminism .
27 they had bought the house , erm in erm North Uphall , a big mansion like , you know , and er , he had the business in the , he built the business in the stables , there was like the stables so he renovated and got it , it out and renovated and made a business er engineering business , er , oh , hatch , like with the house and they only paid er seventy eight thousand when they bought it and then when they 've sold it they 've got about three hundred and eighty thousand for that and he er , hire , hired now the , you know these units
28 A week ago the garrison there made a sally against us and surrounded and took a company of our men . ’
29 Well I said you 're going towards Hollyhead I 'm going towards North Wales why not en-route let's find somewhere and stop and have a meal there , rather than have a meal in Chorley and have to drive all the way down .
30 An academic model for building surveying education has been established by the ‘ centres of excellence ’ , and where the shortfall in employment prospects has chilled the ebullience of some job markets , the building surveyor is currently displaying skills and attributes that stimulate a demand and maintain a 100% employment record for the graduates .
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