Example sentences of "[noun sg] to try and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 5 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 6 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'll have to do some more calls on Friday night to try and get those appointments , and if necessary , I 'll have to come in on Saturday morning , because you do n't finish a week until you 've got your appointments for the following week . |
| 9 | ‘ She used the Christmas season of goodwill to try and murder these men . |
| 10 | The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses . |
| 11 | Now the shootings at more than 600 estates and on moorlands will continue until the middle of this month to try and break last year 's record of 24,000 hinds killed . |
| 12 | The priest frowned and pulled at his collar to try and gain some respite from the suffocating heat . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Doctors , G Ps , nurses , pharmacists , dentists , they 're all under attack and you 're just part of the effort to try and repel that attack , all the way round . |
| 15 | We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself . |
| 16 | Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production . |
| 17 | There certainly would not be any conferring with the record company to try and establish comparable advances. , |
| 18 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 19 | In the international class today Ulster riders will be going out on cross country to try and gain higher placings . |
| 20 | Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . |
| 21 | And people are doing it again now , in order to try and re-create those sounds . |
| 22 | That was strictly his own idea to try and cover any hesitations while he hid the trail that led to Miss Tuckey and the picture on her wan . |
| 23 | And when the muttered reply , ‘ He 's … he 's gone on a trip to try and make some money so we could … could get married , ’ came from her shoulder , she pushed Jessie upwards , saying , ‘ Oh my God ! ’ |
| 24 | John has always gone out of his way to try and persuade similar sufferers that there may be help for them in alternative therapies . |
| 25 | At least it gave him time to try and talk some sense into her . |
| 26 | Since the variation in 6.4 and 6.5 is partly at least phonetically constrained , it is helpful at this stage to try and summarize these constraints : Rule 1 describes the constraints on variation in tokens of ( o ) , using a conventional generative format . |