Example sentences of "and [vb infin] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 2 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 3 | So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career . |
| 4 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 5 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 6 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 7 | The proposals must be acceptable to the people and parliament of the United Kingdom as a whole and because of the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland any political arrangement must recognise and provide for the special relationship between both parts of the island . |
| 8 | This sort of awareness of the children 's requirements is a key role for the teacher in most activities as she tries to anticipate and provide for the next stage in each child 's development . |
| 9 | On balance , the best policy ahead of such a closely-fought election is to hang on and hope for the best . |
| 10 | The next day , and the day after , his requests for an audience met with a blunt refusal and the clerk had to stay and hope for the best . |
| 11 | The others will have to stay here and hope for the best . |
| 12 | It was far safer to start a town off with a charter , a market and a fair , and a few other practical inducements to settlers , and then to sit back and hope for the best . |
| 13 | She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we should both stop and groom for the final showdown , giving Barry Hearn three months to promote and sell the fight , ’ said Eubank . |
| 15 | 7.5 In the event that fails to order and pay for the minimum number of copies of the Licensed Software specified in Schedule 9 shall be entitled at its option , to terminate the Agreement without liability . |
| 16 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 17 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |
| 18 | I encourage our members to love , respect and pray for the other churches and to seek their well-being and growth above our own . |
| 19 | The Waste was utterly still and save for the dark Tower in the centre utterly empty ; the birds which enlivened the forest avoided it , the morning sun , shining obliquely across it , lit the Tower down one side leaving the other in deepest shadow . |
| 20 | Please would you investigate and arrange for the necessary maintenance work to be put in hand . |
| 21 | Those of you who know me from my earlier scribblings in PFK will be well aware of my feelings in relation to our responsibilities to do our best to maintain and care for the delicate marine creatures we take from the wild . |
| 22 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |