Example sentences of "try and [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand came up to rub her forehead to try and make her think more clearly . |
| 2 | ‘ What are you going to do instead ? ’ asks Phil , chewing up little pieces of graph paper into sodden balls , and flicking them at the laboratory ceiling with a slide-rule to try and make them stick . |
| 3 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 4 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 5 | Well there are one or two other things we can do to try and make you feel better er even if the , the hands are n't the principle cause er I think we 'll see what happens , work your chest out of the way first though . |
| 6 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 7 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 8 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 9 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To try and prevent it raining |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 've always wanted to try and do something like that — play eight-bar pop guitar solos . |
| 14 | ‘ It really touched me and made me feel quite sad that a man should have died in the street from hypothermia so I 've decided to try and do something to help ’ she said . |
| 15 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 16 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 17 | Punc punctuation do you want to try and do you want to just write it down . |
| 18 | Whilst I was in Holloway , my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence . |
| 19 | to try and stop them wasting away . |
| 20 | Dr Robert Bradnock of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London said : ‘ Although the older generation strongly feel the pull of the old countries , I think they will put a lot of pressure on the young people to try and stop them rushing off and doing something which might escalate out of control . ’ |
| 21 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 22 | Against the Director 's advice , he 'd decided to despatch Sylvia into occupied France to try and discover what had happened to them . |
| 23 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 24 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 25 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 26 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 27 | I went there to try and find you to see if you knew anything about Oliver , but you 'd already left . |
| 28 | It was on an operation in Libya that his family was kidnapped by Arab terrorists to try and force him to countermand the order to attack . |
| 29 | Presumably Camb 's going to try and get her to tell him just why a seasoned driver like Fanshawe overturned his car on an empty road . |
| 30 | Er I think they 've gone up to Sting 's parents , er father- in-law to try and get him to say it . |