Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , once divested of their zonae , embryos of all stages are very sticky and tend to adhere to one another as well as to most culture dishes . |
| 2 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |
| 3 | First , that there are cases in which for no apparent reason legacy and trust seem to be used imprecisely . |
| 4 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 5 | They believe he 's carried out several sex attacks in one town , and want to talk to other victims who may have been too scared to come forward . |
| 6 | Imagine that you are writing an essay , and want to refer to what Norris says about deconstruction . |
| 7 | It 's significant that when I get home at night and want to listen to a record for pleasure I usually choose a disc made over 30 years ago — the message survives the medium to an astonishing extent in the best old records . |
| 8 | Tell Edgar I still love him and Catherine , and want to return to Thrushcross Grange , but I ca n't ! |
| 9 | In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it . |
| 10 | They will lease the first team pitch and clubhouse back from the buyers next season and expect to move to new premises in 1993 . |
| 11 | Can you grind pelvises throughout a company dinner dance and expect to return to your hotel room unambushed ? |
| 12 | We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life . |
| 13 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 14 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 15 | A number of these patients are very seriously ill and appear to react to almost every imaginable food and chemical . |
| 16 | The lift that lemon grass , ginger , turmeric , coriander , chilli , star anise , cloves and cardamom give to Indian and Chinese food is out of all proportion to the quantities in which they are used . |
| 17 | The deal increased Kwik-Fit 's asset base and cut gearing to 20 per cent . |
| 18 | Such a situation is one which allows other countries to put aside international law and act according to their own judgments . |
| 19 | impersonal nature : employees work full time within the impersonal rules and regulations and act according to formal , impersonal procedures ; |
| 20 | I am making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country and hope to return to the north-east in the midst of those plans . |
| 21 | I 'd just like to get off my ladder and stop pretending to be somebody else , just be ordinary and not get away with doing this or that — and get away with it laughing . |
| 22 | Only I would wish to tell my sister as soon as possible and put paid to her nonsense . |
| 23 | Givon typifies this approach in that he scales make , have and cause according to " two semantic properties that are universally attested : ( a ) intended ( controlled ) vs unintended ( uncontrolled ) causation … ; ( b ) mediated vs direct causation " ( 1980 : 335 ) . |
| 24 | Replace badly furred-up pipes ( or get a specialist firm in to descale the system ) and consider changing to an indirect system and/or installing a water softener ( page 42 ) . |
| 25 | You go through and stand listening to the rain and the wind , and — just audible — the noise of a man breathing slowly and rhythmically in the bed . |
| 26 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 27 | The children taught by ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ need to be trained from a very early age and seem to need to be of above average intelligence , have involved parents and trained staff . |
| 28 | The effects of the uncertainty principle will then become very important and seem to point to some remarkable results . |
| 29 | Another feature of dolphin skin which could offset turbulence and accelerate movement is a system of dermal ridges ( similar to those that make up our fingerprints ) which are found beneath the skin on the back and flanks of most cetaceans , and seem to correspond to the patterns of water flow . |
| 30 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |