Example sentences of "to try [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been Whitbread 's aim to try and promote from within . |
| 2 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 3 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 4 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 5 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 6 | At this point it may be helpful to try and distinguish between a witness and an evangelist . |
| 7 | Are you going to try and check about er whether you are |
| 8 | And yet , to try and care for them , to protect them , is to touch a sensitive wound . |
| 9 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 10 | Yes er although let me say this , that er there were many things which the management were required to do , for example , when we , when we went to our monthly meetings with them , we established monthly meetings with the management , one , in order to try and control from our side , er the , to have some control on the production er side of things . |
| 11 | The wall stands outside the building of the United Nations — an organisation founded after the end of the last world war to try and bring about peace between all the different countries of the world . |
| 12 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 13 | To cope with this , the manager has to try and stave off time pressures without losing the momentum of gaining popularity . |
| 14 | He assumed the best approach was to try and joke with the audience and he asked : ‘ You would n't say to Shakespeare , that was a good book , can we have another chapter now ? |
| 15 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's foolish to try and manage on your own . ’ |
| 17 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 18 | Neil had told me to try and forget about the ‘ mystery ’ , and this proved surprisingly easy to do . |
| 19 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 20 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 21 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 22 | Well Mr Curtis of course is erm is what I would describe as using inflammatory descriptions to try and do down what 's going to happen with a a new settlement , erm he seems to be convinced that what we 're going to end up with er in Greater York is a development of the sort of er er character that he has described , it would be the clear intention of the local authorities to ensure that an appropriate self contained community erm er is developed , now erm there is no re |
| 23 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 24 | I mean , if you can imagine what the process of a dame in pantomime goes through to get all that gear on then that is the sort of thing you 've got to try and do in mime . |
| 25 | Townsend says the aim of the book is to give enough information for people planning a trip and ‘ to try and capture at least some of the joy and excitement of walking in these mountains ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 27 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 28 | But when the dickie birds sing in the trees I think we ought to try and sing like these . |
| 29 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |
| 30 | ‘ When I came here with my parents in 1974 and saw that most of the ‘ Australian ’ souvenirs were imported from Hong Kong and the Philippines , I decided to try and break into the market , ’ he recalled . |