Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This helps me concentrate and drift into more intense areas of thought . |
| 2 | Foreign language teachers might say that their students already know how to communicate and interact in their own language ; what they need in the foreign language are formal skills and knowledge — pronunciation , vocabulary , grammar — which will provide the basis for communicating and interacting . |
| 3 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 4 | In such a time anyone who lacks the courage to be curious and questioning , the capacity to grow into new competencies , and the confidence to communicate and collaborate with others , is severely handicapped , and his or her educators are guilty of gross dereliction of duty . |
| 5 | Retix Inc , Santa Monica , California says it has developed an Open Systems Interconnection-compliant distributed transaction processing communications manager , which enables different transaction processing monitors to communicate and interoperate with each other . |
| 6 | The most harmful effects are that groups develop competing or conflicting goals , and lose their ability to communicate and cooperate with one another , |
| 7 | Here is more than the chance to do a bit of direct selling or attract further commissions ; there should be the desire to communicate and work with others . |
| 8 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 9 | In Ceylon , stations ranged from those which served the elegant bungalow coastal suburbs of Colombo and those used by Europeans seeking refreshment at the hill stations or at Mount Lavinia to special ‘ coolie ’ stations , where the Tamil labour migrants introduced from South India to the tea plantations could be detrained and kept in quarantine until health requirements could be met . |
| 10 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 11 | Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains . |
| 12 | Once dug and left to dry , potatoes can be sorted and stored in teachests , thick paper sacks or shallow boxes covered with sacking to keep the light from turning them green . |
| 13 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |
| 14 | Back home the data accumulated by Ivanov and his ‘ back up ’ man in the Czech delegation would be sorted and despatched for analysis . |
| 15 | Any incoming mail for guests should be sorted and placed in the letter rack . |
| 16 | Boxes and pots in good condition can , of course , be sorted and arranged on shelves . |
| 17 | But the ideas and what lay behind them could not be as easily sorted and filed into place as those documents in the office where she had worked years ago . |
| 18 | But your Service wants to get it all sorted and giftwrapped for them ? |
| 19 | Business letters and enquiries for the attention of the management or various departments should be date stamped , sorted and distributed to the appropriate departments immediately upon arrival . |
| 20 | As part of the normal processes of a river , the stones in these shoals are neatly sorted and graded by the flowing water into an overlapping fish-scale pattern known as ‘ armouring ’ , which makes them relatively stable . |
| 21 | The teacher could provide containers ( boxes , drawers , jars , etc. ) , perhaps labelled with colour pictures , so that equipment can be sorted and put in the right place . |
| 22 | The residential children sleep and eat in these areas , using the plinths as beds . |
| 23 | They stand over their riders while they sleep and watch for any danger . |
| 24 | This weekend , as he took the fight surrounded and supported by fluttering Union Jacks , it was clear that Lennox regards himself as ‘ one of ours ’ . |
| 25 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne as armed police surrounded and cordoned off the area . |
| 26 | I do n't recommend this as a tactic unless the rest of your cavalry is already engaged , or he could be surrounded and overwhelmed by a mass of lesser troops . |
| 27 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 28 | SONGUL KARABULUT and FIKRI KELES : Suspected members of Devrimci Sol ( Revolutionary Left ) , both were killed when police surrounded and fired on a flat in the Dikmen district of Ankara on 4 May 1992 . |
| 29 | So he is not particularly after a physical relationship , but someone who loves and cares for him alone , Miranda , however , thinks his reason is that ‘ his pleasure is keeping me prisoner . |
| 30 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |