Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | A drastic measure considering electromagnetic pollution has , as yet , taken only a handful of lives , but compliance with a new European Directive could make or break and electronics company . |
| 2 | ‘ I think a lot of Canadians have been waiting with baited breath for several months wondering whether he will stay or go and I think the fact he 's leaving is going to be good for the country , ’ the deputy Liberal leader , Sheila Copps , said . |
| 3 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 4 | If these conditions are satisfied , the party suffering from mental disorders , on recovering his sanity , or those entitled to act on his behalf , may repudiate or confirm and enforce the contract . |
| 5 | first of all if there 's a reference , no question of validity arises , what would happen is proceedings are stayed , subject to turns that your Lordship may direct or order and then |
| 6 | Kylie can sing , act and dance and is unique . ’ |
| 7 | It would jump and shudder and you would have a very uncomfortable ride . |
| 8 | Amid it all was their constant awareness of Moran 's watching presence , sharpening everything they did with the danger of letting something fall and break and bring the weight of his disapproval into the small chain . |
| 9 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 10 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 11 | Oh that 's it , that 's why they 're coming down , that 's why are quite pleased to see us dear , especially at this time of the year , not many people will buy Christmas time , think oh we 'll wait and go and get Christmas over and the spring and |
| 12 | ‘ He can wait and wait and wait . |
| 13 | In a bedroom , its walls lined with posters of death and blue-eyed warriors , a hand begins to scratch and flick and swat and scratch and scratch . |
| 14 | We may pray in particular that communities will survive and flourish and that the anger and depression caused by the announcements will be healed . |
| 15 | Oh she do n't know whether to come and have food or go upstairs with you . |
| 16 | Well I I do think that varies and I think there is some excellent practice in many schools with teachers who are both very good at doing this sort of thing and put great value by it erm perhaps in their individual style , rather than as part of the curriculum erm but certainly there does seem to be a lack of awareness , and certainly where it comes to providing the funding for that , to bring into the school curriculum the sort of understanding about human development and erm aspects of emotional life which affect all of us throughout our life experience and affect our ability to perhaps erm enter into erm adult life with the sort of confidence and erm capacity for developing our potential that we would like all of our coming generation to be able to have . |
| 17 | She made Frankie smile because she believed the bird could say all sorts of real words , when in fact it did nothing but whistle and chirrup and squawk . |
| 18 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 19 | For as classy , clever and well-spun as Twin Peaks is , it makes the mistake of presuming the viewer will watch and listen and perceive . |
| 20 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 21 | Crowds of hundreds would stand and watch and listen and many people made commitments to the Lord . |
| 22 | Now , as well as actual planes flying in the skies , are there going to be anything else that people can actually feel and touch and see ? |
| 23 | I could swim and run and walk and fight . |
| 24 | Maybe they do vibrate and throb and pulsate with ‘ irritability ’ , and glow with ‘ living ’ warmth , but these properties all emerge incidentally . |
| 25 | Introduce Brenda who 's going to speak to us on Make do and Mend and she 's asked me to say that she 'd be very pleased if people break in or erm sort of form some sort of dialogue with her as she goes along . |
| 26 | Donald would choke and spit and deposit the whole mouthful back on to the plate . |
| 27 | But , watching this at a distance , there 's nothing I can do but spit and hiss . ) |
| 28 | Perhaps she should stay and try and make out a case for herself . |
| 29 | They represented a solidity , a security , a stamp of survival on the unquiet experiments of two decades , a proof that two disparate spirits can wrestle and diverge and mingle and separate and remain distinct , without a loss of brightness , without a loss of self , without emasculation , submission , obligation . |
| 30 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |