Example sentences of "try [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot . |
| 2 | Her hand came up to rub her forehead to try and make her think more clearly . |
| 3 | ‘ What are you going to do instead ? ’ asks Phil , chewing up little pieces of graph paper into sodden balls , and flicking them at the laboratory ceiling with a slide-rule to try and make them stick . |
| 4 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 5 | Well there are one or two other things we can do to try and make you feel better er even if the , the hands are n't the principle cause er I think we 'll see what happens , work your chest out of the way first though . |
| 6 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 7 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 8 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 9 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 12 | Erm my nan remembers him , was it somebody called , no no he was another character I think he sold newspapers , but erm I do , I do remember him er They 've always erm tried to get some entertainment on the pitch though prior to the matches to try and make it a family thing you know , I , I think Watford are the best club for that you know , because they , the supporters seem to take all the family along , as my son said when they went down there to the Cup replay they are very much a family sort , they do n't get a lot of trouble at Watford either . |
| 13 | Last night forensic experts were testing the guns to try and link them with crimes in Britain , Europe and America . |
| 14 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 15 | As Roy said , ‘ How can you feel anything but deep affection for a man who has the humility and sincerity not to try and bluff it out ? ’ |
| 16 | If someone needed something , then I would contribute solutions from my file ; but unless there was a need , it was a waste of time to try and peddle them . |
| 17 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 18 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 19 | If anything , they pulled together to try and protect her from those very failures you think hurt her so much . ’ |
| 20 | In promoting consumer products , in competition with each other , the advertisements promote the values of capitalism — the stress laid on wealth and working hard in conventional modes to try and achieve it , competition and the importance of consumer goods as an expression of self and status . |
| 21 | But he wondered if Jessamy would ever forgive him when she found out what he had done in order to try and achieve it . |
| 22 | To pass the time , they told Verdeţ what his fate would be if the government resorted to violence to suppress the strike or to try and rescue them . |
| 23 | as if I 'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us . |
| 24 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 25 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got to try and bring her about . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 28 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |