Example sentences of "try and [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that is a very difficult one for anybody who erm has to try and sort out the ideological , tribal , personal rivalries in Uganda and to answer the question of whether these are going to get in the way of some sort of erm coherent government policy and political stability . |
| 2 | The knighthood for Colonel David Stirling , founder of the SAS , who helped to try and set up a strike-breaking organisation called GB75 in the 1970s , may prove controversial . |
| 3 | Selling horses is my living , so it 's my job to try and match up the right horse with the right owner . |
| 4 | Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing . |
| 5 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 6 | Let me try and set down the opposing points of view . |
| 7 | Do n't be concerned with the feeling that nothing is " sinking in " but do try and seek out the main points . |
| 8 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 9 | I 'll try and keep up the good work . ’ |
| 10 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 11 | try and speak up a little bit because we 've still got the tapes going . |
| 12 | Read the labels and if possible try and work out the different levels of vitamins etc . |