Example sentences of "to try [coord] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 2 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 3 | They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor . |
| 4 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 5 | So will more than likely be off next week , but I do want to try and get something done with this and some of the other accounts , I want to try and get them out the way before I |
| 6 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |