Example sentences of "[noun] to try [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training . |
| 2 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 3 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 4 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's going into Swindon to try and get a job . |
| 6 | So in other words that kind of dream represents an extreme example of erm of an aborted dream , but the very fact that it 's repetitive and you keep having them , Freud would say , is , is a demonstration of the fundamental idea , th that the dream attempts to try and put the past right as it were , you try and dream about it , but you fail all the time . |
| 7 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 8 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 9 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |
| 10 | I think one of the things is of course to try and use the placement to sort of check out for yourself erm perhaps what sort of group you want to be working with in |
| 11 | We shall be meeting with all parties in the near future to try and resolve the situation , ’ he said . |
| 12 | These figures are in the report , we are an authority that has an extremely good record on nursery education and I hope that no one will believe the attempt to try and black the good record that the Conservative and that have the Conservatives had have in this area . |
| 13 | You know you get these little red veins on the su , on the cheek area if you do n't wear a moisturizer those little red veins can get worse , so we use a moisturizer to try and protect the skin . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh my God ! ’ she screeched , and spun the wheel , running the car up onto the pavement , twisting the wheel to try and avoid a shopkeeper , and plunging head-on into the wide , plate-glass window of an antique shop . |
| 15 | Quickly Harvey ran round the front of the car to try and open the other door . |
| 16 | He was rearranging his hair in the rear-view mirror as the monster moved out into the traffic , scattering small boys who 'd gathered at the front of the car to try and open the bonnet , for God 's sake , and examine the engine . |
| 17 | crown dropped off so she had to put that back on , she never put , I had to get erm have another fitting for it , because she said the purpose of pins in her teeth in the tooth to try and get the crown to sit on , on the pins , erm |
| 18 | It lodged in my mind to try and answer the question as to whether there was something special about the depiction of angels in post-conquest art , and if so , what it could be . |
| 19 | The station was first created in 1960 when community leaders took specific steps to try and improve the quality of life in the community . |
| 20 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
| 21 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 22 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 23 | Er and the result was that the heavy casting you know , did n't have to travel the system had to be monitored correctly , you had to see that fair play er was the order of the day both in respect of the member and indeed the management to try and reach a er an agreement . |
| 24 | And he 's starting a local campaign to try and force the banks to change their ways . |
| 25 | set about a campaign to try and persuade the Croydon voters to get the termination of the lease reversed . |
| 26 | But Hendry was unwittingly being protected behind a wall of silence , Doyle deciding that it was pointless to unduly alarm him with so many big tournaments coming up and while police collaborated with British Telecom to try and trace the woman . |
| 27 | Once again the trade unions working individually and through the trade unions for Labour pulled out all the stops to try and secure a Labour victory . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you sleep well ? ’ she asked politely , keeping her eyes lowered as she unclipped her safety harness , stamping her feet to try and restore the circulation . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |