Example sentences of "try and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 2 | You just have to try and do what got you good results in the first place . |
| 3 | To try and do what makes me happy , dress in a way that makes me happy . |
| 4 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 5 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 6 | Presumably Camb 's going to try and get her to tell him just why a seasoned driver like Fanshawe overturned his car on an empty road . |
| 7 | Er I think they 've gone up to Sting 's parents , er father- in-law to try and get him to say it . |
| 8 | runs well it 's so easy for other groups to , to try and get you to help them out . |
| 9 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 10 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's try and forget I said it . |
| 12 | If you ended up with several lists of different sounds you would also try and decide what sounds they are phonetically and what symbols to use . |
| 13 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 14 | But they were then held in remand in prison , and did n't really know how to defend themselves , so this project will be sending lawyers into the Long Houses of the indigenous peoples , trying to educate them about the process of Malaysian law , and work it into their system of customary law , which is known as ADAT , whereby within the Long House , all the community leaders and the members within the community debate disputes over land rights , the forest , the use of it , and try and get them to use their customary law with a knowledge of the Malaysian legal process in order to form associations and fight being thrown into prison because they 're trying to defend the forest . |
| 15 | Now , I know it is sometimes bad to be very narrow in your outlook but I think it was a good idea to focus on , we consider as a pretty high priority and make as much progress as we can , without forgetting other things and try and teach ourselves to do something within a fairly short space of time . |
| 16 | Similarly , if you ever notice someone having a ‘ good ’ positive argument , even if they seem quite passionate , if you are allowed to listen , try and see what keeps it all on the straight and narrow and allows a beneficial and not destructive outcome to be the result . |