Example sentences of "to try and [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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1 | yes , we we 've got to look at this in in in in the assessment er procedures as well but we 've go we 've got to try and link this up with er the the the computer work that we 're doing erm we we 've got I I I think really we we should have possibly a reasonably hefty session one evening next week to say right , how are we going to put this into practice ? |
2 | That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case . |
3 | In any of these cases , you should take legal advice when you are ready to make a Will ; it is not a good idea to try and do this on your own . |
4 | There may be a great temptation to try and do this as part of a justification for the very existence of the media relations programme . |
5 | you all to try and do this time is to avoid if you can mouthing words , mouthing dialogue . |
6 | So what you 're saying is , that if people er , if people 's consciences state I ought to try and do this , but I 'm not required by statute to do , the chances is that A , that you , you ca n't do it anyway , but B you would n't have the facilities to do it anyway , as well . |
7 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
8 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
9 | He knew it would be useless to try and hinder this , she would be fidgety and fretful if there were dirty clothes about . |
10 | To try and answer this question , it is necessary to look in more detail at the anatomy of the current slump in the housing market and assess why it has been so much more severe than previous downturns . |
11 | And you 've got to try and relate this back to the areas as we have now as we now understand them . |
12 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
13 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
14 | Erika , born after the smoke of the death camps had stopped drifting across Europe , wanted deeply to try and say this to dapper Uncle Karl , born before the smoke fouled the skies . |
15 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
16 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
17 | A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem . |
18 | Shrimpy 's trying his flipping nice to try and let this drop and just . |
19 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Attempts have been made to try and address this problem in relation to the needs of all children and families . |
22 | There is definitely some collaborative work to be done here between the legal and records management people to establish what is required before computing personnel can hope to try and address this for us via their own skills or pressure on manufacturers . |
23 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
24 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
25 | a bit of petrol or something to try and get this off . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 |
29 | We 'll have to try and get this suit organized . |
30 | I think we have to try and keep this in in proportion , we are really into a we are really into a gesture here an important gesture possibly , but nothing is going to change overnight and in fact very little will happen erm , for years , for years to come . |