Example sentences of "[adv] try [conj] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we instigated that procedure and then we went on to try and extend the facilities for shop stewards to be able to take care of the er problems arising out of the incentive scheme . |
| 2 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 3 | We were dropping the ice packs in to try and keep the . |
| 4 | Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick . |
| 5 | It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose . |
| 6 | The Rao government moved swiftly to try and tackle the economic crisis . |
| 7 | Mac-to-PowerPC software start-up , Echo Logic ( UX No 385 ) , fresh from its triumphant debut , figures it has proved the feasibility of its concept and is now starting afresh to try and make the binary compiler technology , FlashPort , easy to use . |
| 8 | As a family we could n't get away from school quick enough to try and earn a bob or two for to help my mother . |
| 9 | And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’ |
| 10 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 11 | So how do you try a new song because you said that you wo n't necessarily try and do a song out on stage . |
| 12 | and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and |
| 13 | Just to try & redress the balance here ; - ) I watched the goals on MOTD and I must say that Speed did appear to wrestle someone to the ground ( def. free kick ) . |
| 14 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 15 | That look of sympathy deepened in his eyes , as if he knew she was just casting around desperately to try and outrun the turmoil of her own feelings . |
| 16 | The younger of the trio looked at McCann and Morton and decided he would be better advised not to try and reach the .38 he had jammed into his belt . |
| 17 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 18 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 19 | Ellis and Ellis 1982–4 ) , Looking for Information ( Jordan 1980 ) , Developing Reference Skills ( O'Brien and Jordan 1985 ) , Upgrade Your English ( Debska 1984 ) , and many others all use prefaced questions like ‘ Look at these questions , then read through the passage quickly to try and find the answers ’ ( Skills for Reading Morrow 1980 53 ) . |
| 20 | we could hopefully try and make a decision |
| 21 | They 've been specially set up to try and ensure a more secure future for Britain 's small companies . |
| 22 | Didcot took the lead in the twenty fifth minute when a fine ball by Holden sent Trevor Mason through , and as the keeper came up to try and narrow the angle , Mason squeezed it through his legs . |
| 23 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 24 | Managers do not only need to prepare for the dramatic disaster which may occur but should also try and assess the risk potential of those crucial everyday activities , says Neil Fitzgerald . |
| 25 | ‘ It seemed to be a lovely idea once the first one was put out to try and do a series . |
| 26 | She whipped these out to try and smother the blaze , her eyes smarting with the smoke . |
| 27 | He has issued a notice of motion , taken out to try and get the sale of the house set aside . |
| 28 | He had set out to try and find a passage to the Orient round the north of Asia in the hope that this would rid the merchant ships of the scourge of pirates who were terrorising the southern trade routes . |
| 29 | Since then yet another Potato Marketing Board buying programme has begun , at £10 a tonne , simply to try and clear a major surplus of potatoes off the market . |
| 30 | Morrison 's solicitor commented that the decision was ‘ outrageous ’ , and that an appeal would be lodged immediately to try and save the two-and-a-half-year-old dog . |