Example sentences of "to try [conj] [vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to try and rescue his documentary from the mauling it had received during the morning conference , so it might be wise to keep a clear head . |
| 2 | But she 'd like to see him , to try and set her mind at rest . |
| 3 | Big Bill A Labour peer has put forward 400 amendments to the Maastrich Treaty Bill to try and slow its progress through the Lords Star better : Coronation Street star Lynne Perrie , 62 , who plays Ivy Brennan , is improving in a Salford hospital after collapsing four days ago . |
| 4 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 5 | IBM Corp in France has created a Unix systems division to try and fulfil its aim of becoming market leader by 1994 and , in particular , to focus on high-margin software and services . |
| 6 | The therapist also understood the behaviour in terms of Pamela 's need both to show her parents how desperate she was feeling , and to try and change their behaviour towards her . |
| 7 | He would be mad to try and change his way of life now . |
| 8 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 9 | Could we not call it sort of discussions and to try and put our point of view , our , our difficulties that we 're in , rather than erm , er , er , the narrower thing ? |
| 10 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 11 | Electronic point of sale specialist Verifone UK has teamed up retail systems specialist Saunders Jeffries Ltd to try and get its technology into corner shops . |
| 12 | ‘ Simon went to the length of telling all those lies in order to try and thumb his nose at me ? ’ he protested . |
| 13 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 14 | The company 's next step is to try and boost its profile in an established market dominated by big-name players . |