Example sentences of "try [coord] [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 We can continue and try and finish the business before we have tea or we can decided to have tea .
2 Come along , then ; let's try and change the dratted suit . ’
3 ‘ Do n't try and change the subject !
4 do n't let's , do n't let's try and assume the , all we 're , all we 're trying to do is to gather together the bit that we can put into the pot , and to present it in a logical fashion , to say , if this , then we belief that , and if that , then we believe the other ,
5 I do n't think it 's necessary to portray and try and show the poverty and primitiveness , my emphasis was on the close-knit family units and the craft of these people . ’
6 They 'll try and knock the old cars off the road wo n't they ?
7 So in practice it 's easier to measure the alkalinity and then back-calculate to get that and hence the P H than to actually try and measure the P H directly from sea water .
8 You need n't try and stop the delivery their end .
9 So if the semantics/pragmatics distinction is to do any work at all , we can try and shift the study of indexicals into semantics .
10 You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on
11 I think Chair , a far better idea might be that it , when we get particular applications from a given district , that the officers actually ascertain er , a bit of erm , information from that particular district in order to present to the Committee , to take into account when they 're doing things , I think that would be a far better way because if we have politicians elected in that particular area , they 'd certainly probably come and , and try and hold the sway for that particular item , and there may be justifiable grounds on a countywide basis not to concede it .
12 She just pleaded with me to let her stay with me till the baby was born and then she would try and gather the courage to tell her family . ’
13 what I wanted to do is say is what about the publicity can we try and make the very best of this
14 Yeah but did you try and undo the screw to get the bu , the whatsit off ?
15 They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date .
16 A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all .
17 It 's quite possible that some MPs will try and talk the bill out .
18 erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see
19 You could either go and try and control the people to get more work out of them , which you would do , but the other option is to say , well , I recognise that my plan was optimistic , let's change the assumptions in the plan and you 're going to improve , therefore , your planning .
20 Do n't try and do the wh whole lot all in one go , well that 's simple George I happen to know my hundred and one times table ,
21 They 'll just think it 's a pair of boots er have n't got a clue what , what unison is or what it 's gon they know they 're gon na try and amalgamate the unions to strengthen that 's what I never managed to get through .
22 I will try and get the report to you before you go on leave , and Alan and I can talk more about this in July .
23 ‘ I 'll nip in and try and get the number and give it to Brown Owl , ’ she decided .
24 And do n't try and get the door open . ’
25 I 'm gon na try and get the book back from Rob .
26 I 'll try and get the paper .
27 I mean I 've even though about if I if I tell you this and you think that 's it 's going to put you you just even if you pass it on to somebody what I 'm telling you pass it on , but just and I 'll try and get the dental treatment where I can get the dental treatment .
28 And if I may we 'll set something up for them and we 'll try and get the shirt on the telly and whatever and try and get people to remember .
29 I would also like , and I know this is where I 'll get problems I would if we are gon na try and get the kids into a routine over them doing their work I think the easiest routine for them to have is that you do you , you get , you have your lesson you do your homework that night and you hand it in the next day .
30 Yeah well we we thought we would erm erm try and get the Asian community involved and we included some sequences with Asian clothes with Asian music an tha that was all very impressing for for the white people as well as the Asian people in the audience .
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