Example sentences of "to try and [vb infin] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 2 | The NHS reforms and the Patient 's Charter are designed to try and make the health service more customer or patient oriented , but structural reforms and exhortations will never be enough on their own . |
| 3 | Originally , the Seychelles kestrels nested in holes in the mountain crags but are said to have been ousted from that habitat by barn owls which were introduced to try and control the rat population . |
| 4 | Manager Tommy Gilmour will fly to Puerto Rico in three weeks to try and bring the Camacho fight to Glasgow in January , giving Weir almost three months to get over his first ever cut in one hundred and sixty seven fights as both amateur and professional . |
| 5 | I also admire Bethany Megan Robinson for efforts to try and improve the Skerne Park Estate . |
| 6 | It often pays the artist to try and put a ceiling figure on these expenses . |
| 7 | In fact the members took it to a European court and spent a lot of their own money — twenty five thousand pounds — to try and get a discrimination judgement out of the European court , which failed at the last hurdle really , we think on political grounds really . |
| 8 | Lastly , he said , we are committed to try and keep the trades council movement alive . |
| 9 | One of her missions in life was to try and instil an Oxford accent into small boys who had a pronounced Wiltshire one . |