Example sentences of "try [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be very frustrating to try and sort something out with her ! |
| 2 | ‘ Because , ’ the Doctor answered , a little hoarse himself , ‘ the enhancer works both ways , and the Old One 's survival instinct is letting him draw on its excess life-force to try and bring it back into the world . |
| 3 | Cos if it is , how much are we gon na have to pay for it , and why and what can we do to try and bring it back in . |
| 4 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 5 | You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's |
| 6 | Immediately Alex thought : so that 's why she invited me to dinner , to try and match me up with her semi-alcoholic brother . |
| 7 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 8 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 9 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 10 | You 're not going to try and talk me out of it , I hope . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My father asked you to try and talk me out of getting married ? ’ |
| 12 | Your father asked me to try and talk you out of this engagement , to try and find out what you felt about this boy . |
| 13 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 14 | It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it . |
| 15 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 16 | I want to try and get her in for er into the auctions for Wednesday . |
| 17 | I used to try and get him out into the country in the car . |
| 18 | ‘ And Francesca 's there to try and get him out on bail . ’ |
| 19 | They di they did n't want to feed those on strike , they wanted to try and get them back to work did they ? |
| 20 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 21 | Paul 's in a meeting , but she 's going to try and pick him up on the way , or leave a note for him to follow on . |
| 22 | Now another one I 'm going to try and catch you out with . |
| 23 | Er , at some time during the course of tomorrow morning , I 'll try and bring you up to date as to where we are in terms of the items that have fell off the agenda so far . |
| 24 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 25 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 26 | But do n't try and drag me down with you . |
| 27 | I said do n't try and drag us down with your slipshod ways . |
| 28 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |
| 29 | everything would be absolutely soaking , and I 'd try and get it off of him but he holds on to it so tight |
| 30 | If there is one in your street , please let us know and we will try and get it back into use again . |