Example sentences of "and try [to-vb] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUT ! ’ screeched the thing that Peter had become — and tried to lunge towards them . |
| 2 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 3 | The man bent down and tried to speak to them ; the twins smiled sweetly and returned to their game . |
| 4 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 5 | We as a as a policy unit get involved in that kind of work as well , so working with departments , looking at new initiative 's and trying to work with them . |