Example sentences of "[noun] try and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 2 | Education in schools , colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties . |
| 3 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 4 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |
| 5 | But you 'd be a fool to try and get this agility if you have n't got those safe levels suppleness , strength , stamina and coordination cos you 'd be asking for trouble . |
| 6 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 7 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 8 | However , the limitations of the stick forced governments to try and win voluntary cooperation through concessions and " social contracts " . |
| 9 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 10 | Too many British rap tracks try and copy American stuff , but our sound has evolved through time and we keep branching into different styles . ’ |
| 11 | Two hours later we were ready to start fishing so we baited the cat rods with squid and cast these out at varying distances to try and locate any patrol routes that were being used . |
| 12 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
| 13 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |
| 14 | I 'll have to do some more calls on Friday night to try and get those appointments , and if necessary , I 'll have to come in on Saturday morning , because you do n't finish a week until you 've got your appointments for the following week . |
| 15 | ‘ She used the Christmas season of goodwill to try and murder these men . |
| 16 | His working methods were very different from those of Graham Rowell and she found she was constantly on her toes to try and keep one step ahead of him in anticipating what he would want next . |
| 17 | Most people are amazed to get an answer from the band at all , so it is good business and public relations to try and answer these enquiries . |
| 18 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 19 | Now the shootings at more than 600 estates and on moorlands will continue until the middle of this month to try and break last year 's record of 24,000 hinds killed . |
| 20 | Nor can the horse hear so much when stabled , although some people try and overcome this deficiency by leaving a radio playing all day in the stable for the horse 's benefit . |
| 21 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 22 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 23 | The United States , and some other Western governments , went to considerable lengths to try and discredit these elections as being not free , but fraudulent . |
| 24 | The priest frowned and pulled at his collar to try and gain some respite from the suffocating heat . |
| 25 | Want 's a transfer , there was hundred 's of people on the list to try and get this way , I mean it 's like this women who took Jane 's house , to swop Jane , she did n't even come and look at Jane , she said yes I 'll have it |
| 26 | Doctors , G Ps , nurses , pharmacists , dentists , they 're all under attack and you 're just part of the effort to try and repel that attack , all the way round . |
| 27 | It is natural for young men to try and kill each other . |
| 28 | We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself . |
| 29 | Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production . |
| 30 | There certainly would not be any conferring with the record company to try and establish comparable advances. , |