Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I wish to leave , and I want you to come and show us the place where those two corpses were found . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ People are very welcome to come and see what the teachings are about without any obligation . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The alarm will trigger in a central control point and the people there will either ring a neighbour to ask them to go and see what the problem is , or immediately ring the emergency services . |
| 18 | But also there may be agency clients watching the participants from another room through a one-way screen to see and hear what the people do . |
| 19 | Right , I 'll get off to shop and get her the stuff what she wants , and make her her dinner . |
| 20 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 21 | Rather than enter this fray it could be better to wait and see what the outcome of the vote is . |
| 22 | ‘ I shall have to wait and see what the situation is with Lazio before I know about England . |
| 23 | Theresa I 'm going to have to stop you and I 'm going to have stop you as well Sue and can I say that we 're going to need to wait and see what the Prime Minister has to say . |
| 24 | Well you 'll have to wait and see what the inspector says on the greenbelt . |
| 25 | To vanish and give herself the chance to rebuild her life . |
| 26 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 27 | Show us what you want us to do and give us the strength to submit our will to yours . |
| 28 | He was a long distance lorry driver but he knew how to dress and taught me the golden rule ‘ Do n't mix your stripes ’ . ’ |
| 29 | For Neil Kinnock , a dish of leeks baked in Caerphilly sauce — easy to eat and comforting whatever the outcome . |
| 30 | Our College would serve : to collect and deposit the variety of sound veterinary knowledge which floats dispersedly in the kingdom … to collect and arrange whatever the labours and experience of other nations have furnished on this subject ; to improve on this extensive stock … correspondencies and communications should be encouraged … |