Example sentences of "try and [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 and I 'm just wondering if maybe , maybe we will just have to do a wee bit of work and try and get something on the go to see if somebody will
2 oh try and get it between the
3 Cos , when you try , if you try and control it on the accelerator it 's very , it 's really jerky
4 Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative .
5 For an essay referencing is extremely important but for exams it 's nt but just get the names in not necessarily the years Okay , when you think of erm any , when you 're revising stuff and you want to learn studies , try and put them in a context .
6 Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services .
7 One of the main problems of the European Community is over-supply , alright , so they try and use it as an argument , this perverse supply response , as an argument to maintain prices at their current level .
8 Buy a caravan with a horse , maybe , and try and make it into an adventure .
9 I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’
10 if you try try and treat one as the other you 're gon na come very unstuck
11 You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order .
12 And they try and do it with a lot of gimmickry and
13 Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes .
14 Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes .
15 This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media .
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