Example sentences of "just try [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 just to try and cope with it
3 Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence .
4 like it you know , you , you can spend a lot of bloody money just to try and improve
5 ‘ Would you mind if I followed you back — just to try and see if anybody else is trying to ?
6 ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’
7 Well I suppose it 's it 's just to try and find out different opinions on on different wars and things like that .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off .
11 er all agricultural prices are set with the B C U and er what we 're er hold on do we just try and organize myself .
12 Now I , let me just try and get this one .
13 ‘ Let's just try and forget it . ’
14 Do you just try and quiet him by are you soothing ?
15 she does feel guilty perhaps she can just try and cut down a bit now .
16 They would never bother to check whether it was really theirs — they 'd just try and hit it .
17 Then , yeah , we 'll just try and get through today .
18 I 'll just try and get two carvers to match
19 Oh you 'll have to just try and call in but
20 Erm as well as all that erm I 'll just try and add in the extra bits that Erm what was oh sorry how did I come to Friends Provident then ?
21 Right , now we 've come I think to future events , erm , and we need to just try and list anything you know that 's coming up so , partly so that we 've actually got it down writing and we can look back on it .
22 I could just try and ask people .
23 Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea .
24 Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war .
25 I just try and close my eyes to it
26 Navies all over the world do more than just try and blow each other out of the water , or go on desperate reconnaissance missions as seen on TV .
27 I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad .
28 I would think your , your best bet Robert is just try and keep your weight steady .
29 No so just try and try and learn them .
30 On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me !
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