Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes . |
| 2 | The Tsars , the Habsburgs and the Ottomans sought to rationalize and industrialize their ramshackle empires in order to protect themselves against the expansionism of the modern West European State . |
| 3 | The crude hides of the tent ceased to billow and bulge . |
| 4 | Mm , just got to go and sort them out , hang on I 'm coming up , I do n't know why you did n't go in the downstairs toilet , it would of been easier for me then would n't it ? |
| 5 | I got to go and do all his cleaning . |
| 6 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 7 | I got to go and get some potatoes . |
| 8 | And the drink I got to go and get as well . |
| 9 | ‘ I got to go and see if Caspar 's 0 . |
| 10 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 11 | They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough . |
| 12 | Sheepishly , Nathan agreed to go and watch movies with Zambia , casting agonised looks after Ari as he followed hir from the canteen . |
| 13 | Andy agreed to go and help set up and Bob likewise . |
| 14 | David agreed to go and ended up liking it . |
| 15 | In the past we sought to monitor and control all the major variables in a business . |
| 16 | The violent citizens sought to kill or abduct the Pope when Barbarossa refused to pay them an immense bribe . |
| 17 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 18 | They sent him delivery order but he failed to come and collect the rice . |
| 19 | In each case , according to the audit office , BAS devoted insufficient resources to project management and failed to train and support the project managers adequately . |
| 20 | Unlike the herald who sought to observe and note the outstanding ( the chroniclers , notably Froissart , made good use of the reports of battle given to them by heralds ) , the constable and marshal were more concerned with maintaining order . |
| 21 | The Side , an unlovely , but beloved spot was where the miners met to squat and smoke and gossip : Burton recollected it warmly as a fraternal masculine club , much cherished . |
| 22 | Instead , they sensibly decided to avoid disputes and differences by jointly employing one average adjuster to advise them on how the loss should be apportioned and agreed to accept and act on his advice . |
| 23 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 24 | Some ( e.g. Smith and Goss 1955 ; Holton and Goss 1956 ; Vanderplas , Sanderson , and Vanderplas 1964 ) confirmed that subjects made to observe and attend differed little from experimental subjects . |
| 25 | ‘ Father always kept in touch with Peter and he planned to come and see us when he got leave from France , where he was stationed . |
| 26 | And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president . |
| 27 | I chased 'im all the way up the Butts with me stew saucepan , and a bobby 'ad to come an' save 'im from 'aving 'is brains bashed in . |
| 28 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 29 | Minton was also on friendly terms with the fourth ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painter , John Bratby , whom he got to know whilst acting as his tutor . |
| 30 | He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds . |