Example sentences of "try [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be going , I try and go late and get a lift from someone to Hertford . |
| 2 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 3 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 4 | That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres . |
| 5 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , try and get here early . |
| 7 | Bloody hell , I try and get bloody dressed up , should be looking , stupid sod , drunk , got drink all down me . |
| 8 | you know try and get Sometimes in an examination they 'll give you funny numbers like two point five but they tend to work 'em out for you . |
| 9 | John Edmonds , John Prescott , Claire Short , chaired by Tom , should be very interesting indeed colleagues , try and get there . |
| 10 | Try and get there colleagues , it should be very interesting indeed , and again , another commercial . |
| 11 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 12 | Try and get as much out in one breath and then just go next |
| 13 | They try and get as rid of as much as possible . |
| 14 | Erm and try and become better informed about what we are buying . |
| 15 | Come on your potty 's in here darling , come on you 'll trip over if you try and walk too far like that , come on I 've got to no come on . |
| 16 | If at first you do n't succeed , then try and try again . |
| 17 | We try and try again and abandon it . |
| 18 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 19 | When you try and take away more than you 've got . |
| 20 | Erm , otherwise I just think it 's very tricky when you , when you , when you try and take away the layers that you 're going to just end up with the one that you ca n't talk about anyway . |
| 21 | try and make then laugh I suppose |
| 22 | Before the start , just let them know you are there and do n't let anyone crowd you ; try and make as much space for yourself as you can . |
| 23 | And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that . |
| 24 | and then try and ship again into Germany . |
| 25 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 26 | I try and read as much as I can , but this extremely difficult when one 's a mother with a family and there are other children as well to look after . |
| 27 | Try and include as many Japanese-style plants as possible , but do not be afraid to experiment with others that conform to the general idea . |
| 28 | What we try and do here is show young musicians how a major studio works . |
| 29 | Merete suggested I try and do just that . |
| 30 | Whenever drilling or practising , try and do so without reading from your book or papers . |