Example sentences of "try [coord] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 2 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 3 | I 'm going to try and manage without that er support on my arm today . |
| 4 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 5 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 6 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 7 | But when the dickie birds sing in the trees I think we ought to try and sing like these . |
| 8 | It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament . |
| 9 | I would therefore urge people to try and talk about these kinds of things before the situation arises because this can avoid so much misery later on . |
| 10 | Erm the J C one we 'll have to try and deal with that again as a separate issue but I do n't , I mean the amount of time we 're losing from high levels of sickness we talked about a c couple of meetings or so ago , about the absence levels with some people , we 've just got ta make sure we crack that on the head , we 're just haemorrhaging money , the fact that it is not just hours it 's money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 13 | I used to try and act in straight plays but I was so bad they made me act with my back to the audience . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I intend to try and stick in this country . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 19 | Self-esteem or pride gives the horse confidence to try and get what it wants or needs ; and success increases the horse 's confidence further so it may dare to try and win against greater odds — whether it be stronger horses , an adverse environment , or dominant people . |
| 20 | And where possible , we do try and pass on any discounts that are available to you . |
| 21 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 22 | And I did try and sit on one of them . |
| 23 | I will try and reply in some detail . |
| 24 | Having said that I 'll try and speak to this . |
| 25 | when you find out , you must try and think of some way that y can make you to think of it . |
| 26 | Well I think even if you do n't do it as one christian or as one human being to another , even if you do it in the view of a general who sleeps with the enemy general 's picture over his bed and you 've got ta try and think into this man 's mind , remember he 's from West Belfast , he 's from the area that this man was killed in . |
| 27 | right , okay , when should we try and go for that maybe at the end of April beginning of May ? |
| 28 | Well let's try and go for that then . |
| 29 | Happens , but they do try and go for bigger takings , I mean they 'll not break into my house it wo n't be worth all that worth . |
| 30 | no , but I took the bits that I wanted , and my bits and I 'll try and get on that |