Example sentences of "try and [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 2 | Er , so the lesson we learned from tornado was that we want to try and cap our financial liabilities for the project for the development of it , at a much earlier stage and er drive as tough a commercial bargain as we possibly can . |
| 3 | You might like to try and measure your own performance . |
| 4 | Let me with some humility , therefore , describe the manner in which I and my colleagues have sought to try and create our own dream of where our company might fit into tomorrow 's world , and how this process of marrying the vision from the top with the visions from below has been carried out within ICI . |
| 5 | He then goes on erm going on from that , going on from say commercialization , increased commercialization erm that there 's an effort to build more roads and repairing and that basically there seems to be a picture that the peasants are getting together to try and improve their own lot . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I bought the plane to try and cure my lifelong fear of flying — but everything went wrong , ’ says Mike whose Tubular Bells II topped the album charts earlier this month . |
| 8 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |
| 9 | ‘ If ever I went out of my way to learn something from a book the chances were that It 'd be hopelessly wrong — you know , inaccurate transcriptions of a song or solo — so I decided to try and develop my own ear by learning things from record . ’ |
| 10 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 11 | Not only do you have to work out where your competitors stand at present , but you also have to try and project their future course in the same way you have projected your own and look at how this will affect your own policies in future . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To endeavour to spread these principles among my companions , and to try and help my younger brothers . |
| 14 | In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme . |
| 15 | I 'll I 'll try and rewrite my erm this is something that is not a problem , every time I write a letter it or write my introductory letter it comes out different , so I 'll try and simplify my introductory letter as well , I think we 'll get a bigger uptake , |
| 16 | Well let's hope they can try and decipher my bloody dialect , because |
| 17 | Yeah okay well I 'll I 'll try and give you five minutes before eleven o'clock so er so you can nip over to the video room or wherever it 's being played . |
| 18 | I 'll try and give you some back . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na try and chuck my red book at the window . |
| 20 | But if I wish to enjoy myself dabbling in cooking or in playing the stock exchange then I should try and form my own judgment . |
| 21 | I shall try and split my bodily structure . |
| 22 | I had a lovely lunch I just thought I 'd try and get my own way for once . |
| 23 | Alright , well we 'll try and get you some information and if we do we 'll give you a ring . |
| 24 | I 'll try and get you some cash if that 's what 's worrying you . ’ |
| 25 | Did n't the Anglicans try and have it both ways ? |
| 26 | There was almost a desperation about the way we 'd try and fill our recreational time with something worthwhile . |
| 27 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 28 | Well we did try and mend it several times , but he 's |
| 29 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 30 | Would n't mind about the , when yo , you know when you hear about being in it 's huge try and gore him each player so they |