Example sentences of "try [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to make two of these sails for us to try and we later purchased a third from association funds . |
| 2 | And er we used to try and them in the garden just to get the odd one or two for somebody you know . |
| 3 | ‘ I had always wanted to try and it was wonderful , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Anyway , it would do no harm to try and you never can tell , Vincent — she might turn out to be a classic Greek beauty . ’ |
| 5 | and my concern is that our children are going to go into the er work place to try and you know establish their own |
| 6 | Would be a , be quite a few calls , but we 'll just maybe have to try and I do n't know what we 'll do . |
| 7 | River rafting is definitely the thing to try if you have the spirit of adventure coursing through your veins . |
| 8 | At the end of each of the following four weeks there is a recipe section which you might like to try if you have the time and the inclination . |
| 9 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 10 | I never tried if I could help |
| 11 | I tried and I failed , Mr Millet . |
| 12 | I tried and I would have succeeded . |
| 13 | ‘ Nooty tried and she got all covered in yuk . ’ |
| 14 | But it 's not as hard as one that we tried cos we wanted a firm one , she wanted something firm but nice and high . |
| 15 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |
| 16 | I tried but she sensed my revulsion . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried but he 's not in . |
| 18 | and we we have tried and tried but you can not light the spark . |
| 19 | I do know that some of my colleagues tried but you will not read about that in the newspaper clippings of the period . |
| 20 | Jack tried but it was quite impossible ; the button , like the steering wheel , was red hot . |
| 21 | He tried whether he had a voice in the dream , and it seemed that he had , though a curiously meagre one , for she leaned still closer to hear what he wanted , inclining her earnest head to bring a small , close-set ear almost within touch of his lips . |
| 22 | one hand goes one way , one hand goes the other , break it open , put the cardboard away and you need to be ready to try before you pull the next bit off do n't you because as soon as you 've opened that it 's not sterilized any more , so you open that up and you find , unwrap it |
| 23 | With shareware you have ample time to try before you buy , discovering all the programs abilities , and testing it on your own computer . |
| 24 | Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ? |
| 25 | I tried when I was about 18 , 19 . |
| 26 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 27 | Thus there were complaints about Jonathan Davies ‘ not trying ’ when he was playing for Llanelli ( and previously for Neath ) as he tried when he was playing for Wales . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether it was a serious question , but we could try although I 'm not sure Middlesbrough Council will sell it to us . ’ |
| 29 | Ah you could try that I suppose |
| 30 | ‘ If one county gets away with late payment then others may try and we ca n't run the game without their money , ’ she said . |