Example sentences of "and [vb infin] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose I could try and make them like me , ’ Jessamy said doubtfully . |
| 2 | We shall attempt to apply and adapt them to a much shorter viewing distance , under controlled laboratory conditions . |
| 3 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 4 | This seminar is designed specifically for all those who come into contact with IBM 's products and terminology and who want to be able to understand and discuss them in order to carry out their jobs more effectively . |
| 5 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 6 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 7 | We 're not expecting trouble from them and we 're there to help and direct them into the areas where they can get into the ground . |
| 8 | The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not . |
| 9 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 10 | In fact , th the New York Saint Andrews Society which exists to er I think to er , apart from to hold er meetings and er get togethers , also to assist er Scots in New York , at least that was one of it 's original er , principles , they have a er a splendid dinner with all these gentlemen in full kilts , kengroms , don'tski and do 's , the whole bangshoot , and and their their women folk can come and watch them from the gallery upstairs . |
| 11 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 12 | This ( almost certainly unintended ) result is a consequence of the writer relying on other people to state ideas rather than trying to understand and restate them in her or his own voice . |
| 13 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 14 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 15 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 16 | Shall I shall I just write off and send them like pound or donation and a few leaflets could |
| 17 | Once you 've stuck your shapes and text on the page you can rotate and repeat they to your heart 's content . |
| 18 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 19 | They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm — more land , less house , says Johnson . |
| 20 | Oh I 've just got ta go and see them at sa when they get it . |
| 21 | ‘ I might go and see them in Edinburgh tomorrow as well . ’ |
| 22 | We should review the resources we have but do n't use and use them for mission . |
| 23 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 24 | You do try and use them through that , and try and make them more confident in themselves , they 're you know people do accept this a lot more today , than they used to , erm and you know they need n't feel quite so self conscious . |
| 25 | What a challenge to transform and use them as an asset ! |
| 26 | And er course summer holidays we always used to go and spend them with granny and granddad . |
| 27 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 28 | That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master . |
| 29 | For Judaism , God is the liberator who brought the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and subsequently acted to protect and chastise them throughout their chequered history . |
| 30 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |