Example sentences of "[pron] try [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Service wanted me to try and penetrate it , just on general grounds , but I told them : the whole point is not to have their names on our files , all ready for the Soviets to take over . |
| 2 | I try and get it out with my fingers , but I ca n't reach it so I pour it into another bowl and put it on the floor for Satan to drink . |
| 3 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
| 4 | Yeah , so if you had if I try and draw it much the same if you had that and let's choose let's choose er , well le , let's keep the same let's keep to the same carbon chain if you had that the carbon skeleton is exactly the same the only way it differs is that the O H group here is on carbon one of that chain that we 've chosen where as here , it 's on carbon two of that chain . |
| 5 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 6 | But I 'd like you to try and calculate it . |
| 7 | Skinner was trying to talk about psychology as a science because a lot of psychology at the time was n't and if you ask pe I 'm sorry that my sort of talking 's coinciding with people 's conversations but er er will you try and finish it . |
| 8 | Do you have more meetings with Gerry Adams , do you try and to push it forward unilaterally ? |
| 9 | But erm , you know the English , the major author 's list can you try and find it after this . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd better have a mechanic check it over before you try and drive it . ’ |
| 11 | Cos , when you try , if you try and control it on the accelerator it 's very , it 's really jerky |
| 12 | The , I would generally advise that you try and keep it fairly trim at the front . |
| 13 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 14 | Go on then you try and pull it out of us , that 's what I 'm trying to do look |
| 15 | Yeah , it 's just keeps dropping out when you try and turn it ! |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | And most of it If you try and do it with sort of the squiggles on the paper . |
| 18 | Now this is set up differently cos this is set up very sensibly , so that you can fill in who wrote it , when , what date and what it 's about , and when you try and find it later it 's easier to find instead of scrapping through lots of files that do n't have a long document . |
| 19 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 20 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 21 | ‘ We try and make it as painless as possible . |
| 22 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 23 | no that 's alright we try and keep it confidential so they work evenings they 'll contact you , is there |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We try and beat it every week . ’ |
| 26 | in the inside here and if we try and syringe it out it 'll pull hairs out |
| 27 | Now let me try and do it joined up writing like you do it . |
| 28 | I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’ |
| 29 | Because , if you 'd done right , the solder resist they try and put it all over there and it 's gon na screw up their manufacturing and stuff . |
| 30 | One of the main problems of the European Community is over-supply , alright , so they try and use it as an argument , this perverse supply response , as an argument to maintain prices at their current level . |