Example sentences of "try and [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 2 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 3 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 4 | Well I suppose it 's it 's just to try and find out different opinions on on different wars and things like that . |
| 5 | One is to try and pick up bypassable traffic and take it away from Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 6 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |