Example sentences of "[pron] try and do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean acting is n't a cure for cancer or anything , but it is something I can potentially be very good at so I try and do my best , but my narrow-minded qualities do tend to come through on film sometimes . |
| 2 | Mm I think if you try and do it here , so you make it into a shoe shape , you curl it all up into a shoe shape , where do you think it 's going to go ? |
| 3 | And most of it If you try and do it with sort of the squiggles on the paper . |
| 4 | And if you thought you had a fight last year over bi-annual congresses , you wait until you try and do anything that will affect our structure in the future . |
| 5 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 6 | I ca n't do it , and when we try and do it , we 're no good at it , and we ca n't do it . |
| 7 | And they try and do it with a lot of gimmickry and |