Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most harmful effects are that groups develop competing or conflicting goals , and lose their ability to communicate and cooperate with one another , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 8 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 9 | As the parent of a daughter who has had to struggle and cope with dyslexia , I have perhaps more personal knowledge of the difficulties that it causes than many hon. Members . |
| 10 | I think my commitment undoubtedly has a lot to do with the fact that we had to struggle and fight for everything we have . |
| 11 | When the venture was launched in 1970 , Elaine Moss had a ‘ mere ’ 2,000 titles to sift and select from . |
| 12 | It has always been Whitbread 's aim to try and promote from within . |
| 13 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 14 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 15 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 16 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 17 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 18 | Are you going to try and check about er whether you are |
| 19 | And yet , to try and care for them , to protect them , is to touch a sensitive wound . |
| 20 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 21 | Yes er although let me say this , that er there were many things which the management were required to do , for example , when we , when we went to our monthly meetings with them , we established monthly meetings with the management , one , in order to try and control from our side , er the , to have some control on the production er side of things . |
| 22 | The wall stands outside the building of the United Nations — an organisation founded after the end of the last world war to try and bring about peace between all the different countries of the world . |
| 23 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 24 | To cope with this , the manager has to try and stave off time pressures without losing the momentum of gaining popularity . |
| 25 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 26 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's foolish to try and manage on your own . ’ |
| 28 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 29 | Neil had told me to try and forget about the ‘ mystery ’ , and this proved surprisingly easy to do . |
| 30 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |