Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 3 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 4 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 5 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 6 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | ‘ I want you to try and remember everything the two of you said , right from the beginning . |
| 8 | I 'd like to try and define what the difference between and eating disorder and simply wanting to be a different shape or a different size is ? |
| 9 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |
| 10 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 11 | When the men of the World Council of Churches in Geneva heard Arthur was at Caux they phoned him to come and tell them the truth about Rhodesia . |
| 12 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I wish to leave , and I want you to come and show us the place where those two corpses were found . ’ |
| 14 | Mourning the death of his adopted daughter in the raid , Gaddafi was inviting the world to come and see what the Americans had done to him . |
| 15 | ‘ People are very welcome to come and see what the teachings are about without any obligation . ’ |
| 16 | It is a nice feeling to be in a candy store but until you decide what you want and buy it the nice feeling does not turn into a nice taste . |
| 17 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 18 | For after the rain came hail , to batter and crush what the water had left undamaged , and after the hail , snow , sudden freezing squalls that piled white drifts in every cranny and across every open space . |
| 19 | ‘ Let's just wait and see what the critics have to say , ’ Josh returned drily , but he was grinning broadly , clearly delighted . |
| 20 | If the NCVQ was too narrow in its concern with those skill-based qualifications which satisfied employers , the local manager could only wait and see what the final outcome would be between the force of BTEC ( arguing for greater breadth and balance ) and NCVQ . |
| 21 | why do n't you wait and see what the numbers are like and then you can always ring up a few people and say we 've got a space if you 'd like to come |
| 22 | If he came to me now and knelt and handed me the poker , I could n't hit him . |
| 23 | Erm , it it , it makes it very , very difficult to imagine how you 'll recover erm , but in the end it 's a personal decision to , to try to achieve self respect , to care for yourself better , to adopt good habits of nutrition and exercise , not dieting , cos diets are the biggest con trick of all and certainly , to rid your life of people who do n't respect and accept you the way you are . |
| 24 | ‘ Trust yourself ’ she says and gave me the best gift in the universe , one hour of total relaxation . ’ |
| 25 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 26 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 27 | This definition should be understood as the choreographer 's ability to establish a style of movement through which the audience will feel and understand what the performers are communicating through a particular way of dancing . |
| 28 | However , after the case was over I confess to having cheated and done what the voices of infallibility , myself among them , have said must not be done in construing legislation : I looked at Hansard . |
| 29 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 30 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |