Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important for a dog to sit and stay when instructed , once you allow it to run free off a leash ; while it must also be prepared to lie down , both in the home and when waiting with you out of doors . |
| 2 | After a hour of simpering sycophancy from the presenter , the Prince took the viewer into his garden , where he said he loved to sit and think and talk to his plants . |
| 3 | You have to sit down and think and talk it through logically . ’ |
| 4 | But I think it 's absolutely clear that if we have , if we have no sort of terminal erm perhaps it is yes to terminal two at Stansted and I do believe that we must talk and think and act competent er Mr has put various the case but , but we are entitled to we represent Hertfordshire people and we must keep more confident er and it 's interests and I believe there is erm , if we do n't do something , somebody else would be doing that , erm and it 's and , and , and I hope that , that er the , will support and I believe that we will be doing erm so there 's a lot more complex work to be done without erm congestion on the M twenty five , although we 've got the work to put our case but at this very early stage be represented at the enquiry to put the evidence , to put the alternatives is absolutely . |
| 5 | They 'd stop and think and wonder and while they were doing that someone 's great boot would come down — crump — and that ‘ ud be the end of them … |
| 6 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 7 | She 's not going to sit down and laugh and joke over you with anyone else . |
| 8 | As usual , they drank bottle after bottle and soon they began to sing and laugh and shout evil words . |
| 9 | And so we will try and reestablish and reaffirm the main basic principles to make sure that you maintain proper safety margins and er good reaction time , room to manoeuvre , as we 're going through . |
| 10 | You will need about a teaspoonful of yogurt which you then apply to face and neck and leave on for ten to fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | Differential expansion with increasing temperature causes the compound rod to bend and make or break electrical contact . |
| 12 | In this area of mutual ministry , the gifts of the Spirit are given to strengthen and comfort and build up the church . |
| 13 | They represented a solidity , a security , a stamp of survival on the unquiet experiments of two decades , a proof that two disparate spirits can wrestle and diverge and mingle and separate and remain distinct , without a loss of brightness , without a loss of self , without emasculation , submission , obligation . |
| 14 | Study them , not to go and rush and push things to them . |
| 15 | This is your legacy : the Fianna Fáil party being bequeathed to a bunch of cute hoors who will fudge and stall and cavil and equivocate in relation to every single area of progressive legislation relating to women , the family , divorce , homosexuality , contraception and education . |
| 16 | Being shackled to one epoch meant it had to change and adapt but try to reconcile this with harsh realities . |
| 17 | horrible types that can eat and eat and do n't put on an ounce |
| 18 | You wo n't put him off really , I think he 's just got a great a , he 's not , just got a great appetite I think , he 'll just eat and eat and eat |
| 19 | He said to come upstairs to the flat only to fetch his jacket , and then they would go and eat and talk and maybe sit by the river . |
| 20 | Indeed , when Law left the government in 1921 , Frances Stevenson noted in her diary that Lloyd George had " lost an ideal companion with whom he could laugh and joke and enjoy himself " . |
| 21 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 22 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 23 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 24 | As built , the original Time Rotor could not only rise and fall but rotate on its axis as well . |
| 25 | Something like seventy five percent or sixty six or seventy five percent of the , of the units which we actually let , of the houses that we actually let , go to homeless families you know , it is a complete fiction to suggest , or even try and suggest as this does that somehow or other houses are being allocated willy-nilly to people who have massive resources who could go out and buy or rent in the private sector . |
| 26 | I believe I understand what makes the heart of Britain beat , what inspires all those millions of families across the land to go out each day to work and strive and create for the future . |
| 27 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 28 | Why do n't you go and change and hang that suit up ? |
| 29 | He could run and jump and climb much better in bare feet , and he could do it all without making a sound . |
| 30 | In a bedroom , its walls lined with posters of death and blue-eyed warriors , a hand begins to scratch and flick and swat and scratch and scratch . |