Example sentences of "try [conj] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 3 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 4 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 5 | Erm we do try and be nice to them we do try and give them presents occasionally like little , you may have seen some of them wearing little lions head badges which er are part of the arms of William that we had made . |
| 6 | Yeah but its , you got ta try and give them instead of putting the law first , not |
| 7 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 8 | We 're going to make use of this moonless period , but we 'll try and give you a practice run over the ladder before the big night . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll try and give you an example . |
| 10 | Let me try and give you an example . |
| 11 | I 'll try and give you some back . |
| 12 | Yeah okay well I 'll I 'll try and give you five minutes before eleven o'clock so er so you can nip over to the video room or wherever it 's being played . |
| 13 | So I 'll try and give you an idea some time tomorrow morning of the of the situation . |