Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis and the two girls set out to catch and resecure him . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that his tactics constituted an invitation to the French to catch and challenge him . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 4 | Maybe pathetically enough to use the child that grew within her to try and hold him . |
| 5 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 6 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 7 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 8 | She decided to try and visit him . |
| 9 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 10 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 11 | Laidlaw knew he could be overreacting from lack of sleep — it could have been a plan to try and break him down : a voice , no face . |
| 12 | He was incredibly strong and she closed her legs around him , driven by some instinct to try and pull him deeper within her . |
| 13 | And in what might have proved a momentous extension of this diplomatic sequence , it was at Hendaye that in 1940 , after the fall of France , Hitler met Franco , to try and talk him into joining in the war on the German side against the British . |
| 14 | Lee made a dive to try and stop him but it was no good without the collar and he fell sprawling on the gravel . |
| 15 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 16 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 17 | And er yes , I used to try and follow him as much as I could . |
| 18 | Counsel said she repeated the caller 's number incorrectly to try and alert him something was wrong but this did not appear to work . |
| 19 | ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here . ’ |
| 20 | The others then have to try and find him . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you , I 've come to try and find him , ’ she answered . |
| 22 | She asked the person who answered her to try and find him as soon as possible and to ask him to contact her in Cairo immediately as there is an extremely urgent matter she needs to talk to him about . |
| 23 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 24 | When I got to the spot , I groped beneath the water to try and find him and drag him up , but could feel nothing . |
| 25 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 26 | The people fled , only to realize that the teacher had been left behind , so they went back to try and save him . |
| 27 | But if you want my opinion , I think you 're ill-advised to try and force him out simply because you 've got a legal case . |
| 28 | It was on an operation in Libya that his family was kidnapped by Arab terrorists to try and force him to countermand the order to attack . |
| 29 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 30 | ‘ And Francesca 's there to try and get him out on bail . ’ |