Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 2 | Moreover , you must have heard about or seen the horsemen hiding in the trees . |
| 3 | On the advice of a friend , she applied for and got a freelance job with the BBC in Plymouth . |
| 4 | Lots of you applied for and sold tickets and the winning ticket was drawn by the Princess Royal during the lunch period . |
| 5 | BSB 's original backers , who applied for and won the contract to broadcast from 31° West , signed to use MAC . |
| 6 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 7 | Erm but , but they 're an easy target to go for as opposed to , I mean Mao could e perhaps as easily as argued , saying you know commercialization is not the way forward , erm and we do n't want greater interaction with the world economy erm as opposed to saying , you know , overthrow the local landlords . |
| 8 | The thatched roof of the lodge creaked as if mourning over the dreadful secrets of the priory . |
| 9 | Next week I 'm a mining man and the week after I 'll have a wife , one already arranged for and waiting . |
| 10 | I tapped them blindly to sound as if counting them out . |
| 11 | This entitled him to search for and sell ‘ natural gas , petroleum , asphalt and ozokerite ’ throughout all of Persia except in the five northern provinces adjoining Russia . |
| 12 | In general , British managers are unfamiliar with property rental and are unsure as to how to search for and conduct the necessary transactions . |
| 13 | The kind of standards of performance which you need to search for and devise are ones that rely as far as possible on observable facts rather than mere opinion . |
| 14 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 15 | His genealogical lists suggest a need to search for and establish his own identity . |
| 16 | Such procedures of space definition can thus be employed to search for or specify general or specific relationships between associating spaces . |
| 17 | The men in the technical crew , unpaid , were earning their way by filming the fiesta for the B.B.C. The Bedouins , whom Cecil cared for and saw to be poor , were being paid in private out of Cecil 's own pocket . |
| 18 | From a school management point of view , valuable lessons about the nature of curriculum change , the processes involved and the need to plan for and provide adequate time and resource for all staff involved , have been learnt . |
| 19 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 20 | Despite political struggle , scientific advances and social battles , some things can not be changed , marched for or campaigned against . |
| 21 | Brian Everthorpe takes a chair at the far end of the table , slightly withdrawn as if to mark his difference from the engineers . |
| 22 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 23 | It asked for and received the help of the ruler of the Hohenstaufen ( Germanic ) Empire , Frederik 1 , known as Barbarossa ( ‘ Red Beard ’ ) who crossed the Alps and attacked Milan . |
| 24 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 25 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 26 | The existence of a strong Hellenizing party in Jerusalem , which asked for and obtained the support of the Seleucid king , explains what in Hellenistic terms was the exceptional behaviour of Antiochus IV . |
| 27 | However , in practice it appears that the court has a discretion to allow the case to continue as if begun under Ord. 53 provided this will not unfairly deprive the respondent of some protection which would have been enjoyed if the case had been begun under Ord. 53 . |
| 28 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 29 | Everyone was very friendly , and there was much jolly laughter as we passed the frankfurters and Quigley made as if to ward off the evil eye . |
| 30 | She made as if to poke him in the eye . |