Example sentences of "to try and [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 2 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 3 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to try and remember everything the two of you said , right from the beginning . |
| 5 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |