Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 2 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 3 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 4 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 5 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 6 | Presumably Camb 's going to try and get her to tell him just why a seasoned driver like Fanshawe overturned his car on an empty road . |
| 7 | Er I think they 've gone up to Sting 's parents , er father- in-law to try and get him to say it . |
| 8 | runs well it 's so easy for other groups to , to try and get you to help them out . |
| 9 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 10 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 11 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 12 | Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair . |
| 13 | If appropriate one of our specialist nurses will then arrange to come and see you to discuss your practical needs and see how ACET can help . |
| 14 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 15 | But he was sort of being destructive , quite a boss to go and get them to do it , and they would n't . |
| 16 | To go and see What have you bought ? |
| 17 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 18 | The Commission make us do things that we do not want to do and stops us doing what we want to . |
| 19 | But colleges shrink ultimately from stopping a person doing what he is ardent to do and forcing him to do what he is bored to do . |
| 20 | ‘ I quickly learned not to cry and to let them do what they wanted , ’ says Jonathan , 32 . |
| 21 | Quite suddenly , love for her , for gentle , golden Anne , flooded me , and I jumped out of bed , pushing back the net , wanting to run to her and tell her everything , wanting to confess and have her forgive me and kiss me with those soft , childish , soothing kisses . |
| 22 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 23 | He was that pathetic and undernourished I kept on having to stop and let him catch me up . |
| 24 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 25 | I think we 're dealing here with people who are seen by the majority to be liabilities , and the majority do n't want to touch and have anything to do we 're dealing with modern day lepers . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , send me your letter , and I promise to reconsider and let you have my reply as soon as possible . ’ |