Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 2 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 3 | The makeshift bomb lobbed into an upstairs bedroom was packed with nuts , bolts and glass in an attempt to kill or maim anyone in the room . |
| 4 | There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another |
| 5 | the purpose of this double arrangement is to try and arrange something of advantage to both parties erm |
| 6 | I mean it 's In actual fact the the number of people I 've had in and One thing I should say , if you feel you would like a visit one evening , to the plant , then I 'm more than welcome to try and organize something for you . |
| 7 | ‘ The idea is we are going to try and do something with his hands to see if we can give him some form of grip . ’ |
| 8 | In the end I decided to try and do something about it . |
| 9 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 10 | We ca n't just ignore it erm it is proper planning to try and do something about it . |
| 11 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems a shame not to try and do something for him after he 's sent a letter all that way . ’ |
| 13 | . The other ideal , which I have n't got round to doing would be to try and appoint somebody on a short term basis . |
| 14 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 15 | Such a visit should involve talking to personnel to try and understand something of their jobs and to work out how best to tell the story in visual form . |
| 16 | From this , I learned more about leys and immediately got out the local map to try and find one for myself . |
| 17 | Women doing long sentences are obviously going to try and find someone to be close to . |
| 18 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 19 | And that would give you a bit of ready cash , and also it would give you a standing to try and get something from Finance Committee . |
| 20 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 21 | Ron says : ‘ It 's wonderful that people will do so much to try and help someone in trouble , just because it is the right thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | Are you going to come and do something about it or not ? ’ |
| 23 | If you 'd like to come and get one in tea time . |
| 24 | The replicase apparatus immediately gets to work and manufactures lots of copies of the newly introduced RNA molecules , which spread through the test-tube . |
| 25 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
| 26 | Naturally I welcome the fact that the reforms are revealing the extent of NHS underfunding , but this will only be of benefit if you acknowledge what is happening and do something about it . |
| 27 | In response to Mr Fothergill 's letter concerning Carlton amps , we enjoy being in the music business , and to us that means listening to what guitarists want and doing something about it . |
| 28 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 29 | It seems to me , and we shall look at this in Chapter Seven when we examine the notion of unconscious learning in drama , that there is some truth in Brian Way 's claim that relishing and enjoying something without fully understanding it can be of value . |
| 30 | Napoleon marched through it on his way to Moscow , but today the road is used by those who wish to avoid the pressures of autobahn driving and see something of the pleasant , rolling countryside of Westphalia . |