Example sentences of "[conj] try and " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can decide later whether to let it out or try and lose some weight . |
| 2 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 3 | Remember , if the height is marginal it may be safer to land across the field a little out of wind , rather than try and complete the turn with insufficient height . |
| 4 | this is your way of working back rather than try and remember every little detail because a lot of them are similar , easy to get confused between them but you think well hey what would happen , what happens with an acid and a base , what happens with an acid and an alkali , now those two are virtually identical they they are more or less identical . |
| 5 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 6 | Is the policy still to sit it out and wait rather than try and force your way into the prison ? |
| 7 | Many older horses will just stand and try and drive the bot away by striking at it with their feet . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll nip in and try and get the number and give it to Brown Owl , ’ she decided . |
| 9 | But there 's no reason , in principle , why we could n't work again together ; but in my mind it would be wrong , certainly this soon , to go out and try and be Queen without Freddie . |
| 10 | Speaking on the anniversary of the outrageous star 's death he said : ‘ My personal feeling is that we should never go out and try and be Queen again . ’ |
| 11 | All three were exhausted , and two , the older two , would crash out and try and sleep away the jet lag , and the Greek ethnic could shout all afternoon and all night into the telephone for his bags . |
| 12 | I do n't think it 's necessary to portray and try and show the poverty and primitiveness , my emphasis was on the close-knit family units and the craft of these people . ’ |
| 13 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 14 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 15 | They go , they got ta hold especially and try and get through ! |
| 16 | Then you 've got to go and try and find somebody from Birmingham saying and erm |
| 17 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 18 | So I think you probably need to sit down and try and think out some criteria for yourself about what you want . |
| 19 | But that so we think that 's an area where Forest will try and try and exploit just playing down the sides of the er Leicester centre halves and let er Collimore use this great pace of his . |
| 20 | I think Chair , a far better idea might be that it , when we get particular applications from a given district , that the officers actually ascertain er , a bit of erm , information from that particular district in order to present to the Committee , to take into account when they 're doing things , I think that would be a far better way because if we have politicians elected in that particular area , they 'd certainly probably come and , and try and hold the sway for that particular item , and there may be justifiable grounds on a countywide basis not to concede it . |
| 21 | Id dearly love Norwich to come and try and win it ‘ properly ’ . |
| 22 | I was supposed to come here and try and persuade you to sell . |
| 23 | We can continue and try and finish the business before we have tea or we can decided to have tea . |
| 24 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 25 | Perhaps she should stay and try and make out a case for herself . |
| 26 | You could either go and try and control the people to get more work out of them , which you would do , but the other option is to say , well , I recognise that my plan was optimistic , let's change the assumptions in the plan and you 're going to improve , therefore , your planning . |
| 27 | Think what I 'll do is try and try and get hold of the other report and then |
| 28 | ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work . |
| 29 | I 'll go and try and sort that out for you then , alright ? |
| 30 | I 'd better go and try and do some some time . |