Example sentences of "try and [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And that we can try and meet some training needs locally .
2 Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that .
3 I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er
4 I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task .
5 My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date .
6 has become an increasingly dangerous on this right hand side I have said just now they must try and stop this coming in because he is getting some magnificent balls in to the penalty area and sooner or later they 're gon na concede a goal .
7 aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a
8 One could try and explain this as follows : subjects perceived an increase in k as necessitating an increase in output since the opportunities for using output from other periods to increase sales this period had been reduced by the increase in the storage cost ; accordingly , one should produce more now in case the price this period turned out to be a high one .
9 erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were
10 You might try and bring that one through there .
11 I 'm sorry , we have n't that report , we 'll try and bring that to you later .
12 Let me try and bring this out by means of a single phrase in Stavrogin 's suicide letter .
13 So , however busy your life , perhaps you could try and fit some regular exercise into your day .
14 and I 'll try and send some over for the baby
15 And let's try and resolve any issues which , which come up like that .
16 We hope now that management will try and resolve this situation either through redeployment or retraining , or further consultation . ’
17 He 'll try and shrug this one off , mind you .
18 I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon .
19 Yes , but I do n't think we should try and make this happen .
20 But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly .
21 ‘ I 'll try and make some time .
22 Will she try and make more of this than it was ?
23 Now what we want to do is try and draw some sort of picture for that .
24 well could you try and sort that out
25 With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured .
26 I 'll go and try and sort that out for you then , alright ?
27 Let's try and sort this out . ’
28 ‘ Tomorrow , when she sees the head man , I 'll go with you , Kate , and we 'll try and sort this business out .
29 Now I , let me just try and get this one .
30 Erm but we will try and reverse that and er erm one particular parent from House er who is a member of this council has er certainly been following the events with some interest .
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