Example sentences of "to try [conj] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 2 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 3 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 4 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 5 | . The other ideal , which I have n't got round to doing would be to try and appoint somebody on a short term basis . |
| 6 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 7 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 8 | Had Furlanetto done his homework on the great singers of the past , simply in order to try and absorb something of the tradition in double-quick time ? |
| 9 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 10 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 11 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 12 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 13 | and take an extra dose at night to try and get you into a sleep so we can get you back into sleeping rather than up prowling about during the night , cos it does no good at all . |
| 14 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 15 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |