Example sentences of "[noun] to try [coord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he hoped to use his year as chairman to try and double the membership from 100 to 200 as well as helping with training . |
| 2 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to feel like an idiot if someone comes and opens that door right now , ’ she muttered , using words like a shield to try and hide her real distress , the real reason she was feeling like an idiot . |
| 4 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 5 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 6 | Such a visit should involve talking to personnel to try and understand something of their jobs and to work out how best to tell the story in visual form . |
| 7 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 8 | Right , see if you can beat that you see , but er , an hour to try and beat that |
| 9 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 10 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 11 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 12 | I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time . |
| 13 | Thankfully Merrill escaped , glad of an opportunity to try and get herself together again . |
| 14 | M R G to try and pay off some the debt , |
| 15 | Gatsby uses his money to try and attract Daisy , whom he was in love with as a young man , although she later married someone else . |
| 16 | Well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations , but what Virgin are doing is using Richard Branson 's personal money to try and expand out of trouble . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When you believe that you are guilty of all the pain caused by your own pregnancy , birth and subsequent existence , then the burden really does bend your back , and it takes the labours of Hercules to try and straighten it . |
| 19 | The idea of having the person attaching the cable ask if the airbrakes are closed and locked has been introduced in some clubs to try and prevent incidents where pilots take off with their airbrakes unlocked . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's going into Swindon to try and get a job . |
| 21 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 22 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 23 | Pat Palmer underlined the necessity to try and find ways of opening new classes in all parts of the country and said if anyone would like to explore the possibilities in a new area , it may be possible to receive some financial help to get started . |
| 24 | So in other words that kind of dream represents an extreme example of erm of an aborted dream , but the very fact that it 's repetitive and you keep having them , Freud would say , is , is a demonstration of the fundamental idea , th that the dream attempts to try and put the past right as it were , you try and dream about it , but you fail all the time . |
| 25 | No plans to try and wriggle out of your contract ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Take care ’ I said , impotently , making plans to try and grab Steve should he fall in my general direction . |
| 27 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 28 | I stood by the window staring out into the foggy darkness , taking deep breaths to try and stifle some hollow feeling of new disease . |
| 29 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 30 | Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight . |