Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the only way to try and prevent it is to go into the schools and get people that have been through the proble , the problem theirselves to go into the schools and try and educate the kids to stay off drugs . |
| 2 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 3 | Queenie then turns round and has to try and identify who is hiding the ball . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's rude to try and understand what 's going on when it must be obvious that it 's none of your business . ’ |
| 5 | So in other words he 's saying , you should look to history to try and understand what 's happening . |
| 6 | ing them , it is a bold step to try and determine what is good and bad in the material of user education . |
| 7 | Sometimes the compulsion to try and trace them was irresistible , as Alfred Cooper found : |
| 8 | For weeks they would ignore their classes and have building matches , making carpets , shoes , curtains , beds and even hats and jackets to try and prove what was better ; wood or metal . |
| 9 | Riven stood on tiptoe to try and see what was going on . |
| 10 | Now Mr Cleave says he 's offering a reward to try and catch whoever 's responsible : |
| 11 | It taxes the minds of determined embryologists to try and visualize what is going on . |
| 12 | Anthony was dead … her brother Anthony who had alternately teased and comforted her was lying somewhere dead , never to come home again . |
| 13 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 14 | Beside the total rewards such men expected and obtained they are minute . |
| 15 | If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely . |
| 16 | Lizzie grumbled and said she was getting thin and doing too much , but then Lizzie would have grumbled if she had done too little . |
| 17 | Taking account of the fact that things had to be exaggerated and enhanced it was , he said , a true depiction . |
| 18 | Graham then back-tracked and said it was China , rather than Russia , which worried him . |
| 19 | Labov 's interpretation of this irregularity is that it shows the Lower-middle class to be instrumental in diffusing a change throughout the speech community by adopting and emulating what is in fact an innovatory pattern introduced by a higher-status group ( Labov 1972a : 122 ) . |
| 20 | The claim or premiss reduces to this : that we often say and believe something is likely to cause something else . |
| 21 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
| 22 | caught and bowled he was probably was sort of erm |
| 23 | She could only wait and see what was going to happen . |
| 24 | Go back to your priestly intolerance , back to your blasphemous masses , back to your beads , holy water , holy smoke and stinks and remember we are the sons of the martyrs whom your church butchered and we know your church to be the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth . |
| 25 | you can also reclaim old floorboards for use as a new surface ; the hard work of stripping and sealing them is regarded by a floor that has more colour and character than new wood . |
| 26 | ‘ I got caught writing on a bus ; I was arrested and charged and told I was going to get a caution . |
| 27 | Since these parameters have to do with the FMS drivers , checking and setting them is described in Appendix D , FMS Drivers . |
| 28 | And he burst out laughing and said you 're quite right madam , they were police . |
| 29 | Visions of her mother 's angry face when she told her what she knew changed into dreams of Nigel , back in hospital with bandages on his head , and David Kent with a Porsche , laughing and saying it was his now . |
| 30 | Once these kinds of needs are satisfied , the theory suggests that individual motivations will be shaped by behaviour that is associated with : The need to gain self-esteem in the eyes of other people , for instance through the possession of prestigious objects , taking expensive holidays , making donations to charity , etc. * the need to know and understand what is going on around them . |