Example sentences of "try [conj] [verb] you [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father asked me to try and talk you out of this engagement , to try and find out what you felt about this boy . |
| 2 | Now another one I 'm going to try and catch you out with . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Did they try and drag you up the farm yesterday ? |
| 5 | If you 're short of any clothes just come and see me , and I 'll try and fix you up . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll try and guide you back , but I 'm not sure that I can . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll try and wangle you out of the cabbages tomorrow — so you can go bilberrying all day . |
| 8 | but do they really actually dig into the the real reasons for the eating disorders or they just try and get you back onto a stable diet ? |
| 9 | and that 's what , you know , I try and help you on if you like but how can you do that when |
| 10 | Glitters is a really gothic shop in Camden with erm all this sort of and leather pvc gear , it 's a really good shop actually , but it 's a bit of a rip off some of the people try and rip you off unless you 're a respectable adult-looking person . |
| 11 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |