Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Town to win the Championship , they needed to win and Cardiff to lose or draw . |
| 2 | Tied in with this , the Centre is carrying out work funded by the DoE to monitor and evaluate trends in housing management in both local authorities and housing associations in an attempt to assess the cost-effectiveness of management practices and identify ‘ good practice ’ . |
| 3 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 4 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall ask Doctor Sparrow to come and see your mother and give her a complete medical check . ’ |
| 6 | One day the King in a fit of caprice , sent a message to Kabir to come and sing before him . |
| 7 | When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's going into Swindon to try and get a job . |
| 9 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 10 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 11 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 12 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |
| 13 | The committee held that a direct approach should be made to Moscow to try and secure progress in the Joint Committee . |
| 14 | After Sue and Alan left , Lisa and Phoebe had invited their neighbour Jo and her lover Sophie to come and share the house with them . |
| 15 | Outside , Ben was barking for Marie to go and chuck sticks fur him . |
| 16 | It all began when God instructed Jonah to go and preach against Nineveh , a place which , despite God 's substantial record of annihilating wicked cities , was still — obstinately , unaccountably — a wicked city . |
| 17 | Do you want Ann to go and whip you up an apple crumble ? |
| 18 | I did n't know whether it was fair to expect Toby to come and visit me . |
| 19 | ‘ When he went to Fort Robinson in Nebraska to try and conduct peace talks , he knew he 'd be killed , ’ says Lee . |
| 20 | I , er , I think when we get it as well I 'll ask Steven to come and put it on because it 's er |
| 21 | Claudia who was all too aware of what was happening in France — foreign Jews rounded up , her own father hopelessly compromised , labour camps from which none returned — wrote urgently to Fairfax to come and get this man out of jail . |
| 22 | This made it possible for Germany to develop economically and socially , and enabled Barbarossa to consolidate and extend his imperial and personal power throughout the German kingdom . |
| 23 | Michael cleverly gives in and tells Dr Adams where he is and that he wants Dr Adams to come and take him back . |
| 24 | Paramount have thrown caution to the wind and employed MICHAEL CIMINO to write and direct a movie entitled Heaven Is A Sometime Thing . |
| 25 | BOVIS CONSTRUCTION ( Scotland ) invited the Scottish Secretary of State , Ian Lang to come and see how work is progressing on the Festival Theatre , Edinburgh . |
| 26 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 27 | I dreaded to discover just what symptom of drug dependency I was witnessing , and wondered if I should shout for the big Jackson Chatterton to come and rescue me , but then Rickie turned his terrified gaze on to me . |
| 28 | In August 1910 the Board finally introduced its own legislation in the form of the Education ( Choice of Employment ) Bill , which empowered LEAs to create and finance their own juvenile employment services . |
| 29 | Mark Saunders admits that car receivers should not rely exclusively on reception of the CT ( clock ) and date information but use the RDS to set and correct the displayed time . |
| 30 | Protests : Student unrest had already involved a brief occupation of Abidjan cathedral on Feb. 23 , with demonstrators calling on Houphouët-Boigny to resign and accusing him of corruption . |