Example sentences of "to try [conj] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To pass the time , they told Verdeţ what his fate would be if the government resorted to violence to suppress the strike or to try and rescue them . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | as if I 'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us . |
| 34 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 35 | But she 'd like to see him , to try and set her mind at rest . |
| 36 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 37 | ‘ We 've got to try and bring her about . |
| 38 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 39 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 40 | ‘ Because , ’ the Doctor answered , a little hoarse himself , ‘ the enhancer works both ways , and the Old One 's survival instinct is letting him draw on its excess life-force to try and bring it back into the world . |
| 41 | Cos if it is , how much are we gon na have to pay for it , and why and what can we do to try and bring it back in . |
| 42 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 43 | In even the worst-run sales department , the danger that you are going to lose a key sale is recognized and every effort is made , within the limited headroom that you have , to try and retain it . |
| 44 | Maybe pathetically enough to use the child that grew within her to try and hold him . |
| 45 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 46 | the purpose of this double arrangement is to try and arrange something of advantage to both parties erm |
| 47 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 48 | Step 5 Determine the extent of this behaviour ; does its frequency or seriousness justify your efforts to try and alter it ? |
| 49 | And er all the branches had a cook at the national agreement how to try and alter it and make it better . |
| 50 | ‘ The brief as far as I was concerned was not to imitate a dancehall record , not to try and pretend it came from Gussie 's Music Works or it was a Firehouse Crew production or something . |
| 51 | You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's |
| 52 | I still wo n't , if you ever want to try and leave me . ’ |
| 53 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 54 | Where we have the , the erm , responsibility for a formal consultation , er , then we need to set about that process as soon as possible to try and meet our deadline , Mr Chairman . |
| 55 | er , and moving in the right direction , a whole nest of things , when you think about , if you 're going to try and influence something that are influenced , but influence is actually very varied in terms of science . |
| 56 | Yes , so it 's it 's something where you 've got to try and influence somebody to change to a new way of doing it . |
| 57 | ‘ I hope you do n't think I would use what happened the other night in any way to try and influence you . |
| 58 | Many companies er were making fabulous profits and what reason was there to prevent a good shop stewards ' committee from going in to try and enhance their members conditions ? |
| 59 | So the decision is whether we borrow to protect those services , that 's to the elderly , to the school children , to education and to try and enhance our road system . |
| 60 | 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 . |