Example sentences of "try [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament . |
| 2 | For a department within C U and er we 've done this design on it , and come up with a new system , that we want to try and sell to other departments within the company . |
| 3 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 4 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 5 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
| 6 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
| 7 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 8 | Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time . |
| 9 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 10 | You only make a fool of yourself when you try and speak in public . |
| 11 | We all know he still fancies her he 's just trying to , you know keep it he 's just trying to forget it and try and act as normal as possible with her and hopefully things will get back to be back to what , what they were . |
| 12 | Yes , just , can we just , while I 'm thinking about this , try and think of positive things . |
| 13 | I try and believe in important things and they do n't last for five minutes . |
| 14 | So we dream up sets of rules , we try and live by Holy Books , from the Ramayana to the Koran to Das Kapital by way of the Bible . |
| 15 | Every item of clothing you wear , especially your shoes , should have been tried and tested on long runs to ensure there is no danger of an unsuspected seam causing you to chafe . |
| 16 | It coexisted with an ardently self-purifying ethos , where every emotion in literature and life was to be tried and tested against moral examples offered by the great poets and novelists of past time : by Blake 's Songs of Innocence and Experience , by George Eliot 's Middlemarch , by the fiction ( above all ) of D. H. Lawrence . |
| 17 | The basic and rather crude blueprints fashioned in the earliest years are tried and tested against social realities , first at home and later in the world outside . |
| 18 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 19 | They have been tried and abandoned in Eastern Europe , Britain and other developed countries . |