Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 2 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 3 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 4 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 5 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
| 6 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 7 | I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer . |
| 8 | He tried publicly to acknowledge and exorcise them in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold . |
| 9 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 10 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 11 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 12 | Whatever dreams or desires are turning you on you 'll want to pursue and promote them to the Nth degree this weekend . |
| 13 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 14 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 15 | She rounded up her charges before the others began to move and willed them along the path to the car park . |
| 16 | Some people like to use a card for each question at this stage so that it is simple to move questions about as it seems desirable to order and re-order them in the best sequence . |
| 17 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |