Example sentences of "try and [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |
| 2 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 3 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 4 | Again , we said this morning , try and keep it to one page . |
| 5 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
| 6 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
| 7 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 8 | is n't it , oh yes perfectly harmless no malice meant there at all but you try and convince somebody of that . |
| 9 | Unlike some foreign restaurants that try and transplant you to distant shores by piping out Zorba , Pavarotti or the Bombay sitar quartet , thankfully L'Alouette does n't bother . |