Example sentences of "try [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try and get them on their side , or work on them or something . |
| 2 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |
| 3 | oh try and get it between the |
| 4 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 5 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 6 | They have their local medicine and the witch doctors try and cure them of their diseases first so they would even bore holes into people 's skulls to let the spirits out for headaches and things like that . |
| 7 | Others try and tell you about your future , but you never really believe them . |
| 8 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 9 | Cos , when you try , if you try and control it on the accelerator it 's very , it 's really jerky |
| 10 | For an essay referencing is extremely important but for exams it 's nt but just get the names in not necessarily the years Okay , when you think of erm any , when you 're revising stuff and you want to learn studies , try and put them in a context . |
| 11 | Again , we said this morning , try and keep it to one page . |
| 12 | ‘ By the way , try and keep 'em in order , miss , ’ he added , over his shoulder . |
| 13 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We never miss a face , but we know what order they come in and we try and serve them in turn . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
| 18 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 19 | Buy a caravan with a horse , maybe , and try and make it into an adventure . |
| 20 | Tom : ‘ We do n't really put on a big theatrical performance , so you do n't look at it that way , you just try and sing it in tune . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Try and explain it in terms of say let's get all these kids out into the school yard , |
| 23 | Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother . |
| 24 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 25 | Well , try and do it without standing all over the board . |
| 26 | And most of it If you try and do it with sort of the squiggles on the paper . |
| 27 | And they try and do it with a lot of gimmickry and |
| 28 | ‘ Come on , son … try and see it from my point of view . ’ |
| 29 | Try and find it for me , it was a ninety-minute one . |
| 30 | I know I am not such a blameless one as should be saying it , but try and find it in your heart to be good to her , for she is lovely . ’ |