Example sentences of "try and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a lot we can do , I think , to help the community in a wider sense , and I see that as one of the key elements of my work , to try and make that work .
2 The task of the social scientist is to try and make some sense of any observable patterns and the motivations , whether unspoken or not , behind them .
3 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 ! ’
4 It did n't show too badly when he finished the race with several layers of clothing on to try and retain some body heat in the cold driving rain .
5 That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case .
6 Various groups within the party were formed to try and achieve particular objectives .
7 But if she thinks it 's worth the risk , then it 's up to you to try and contain that risk — make sure there 's nothing to trip over , and that someone who can react quickly is on hand to give tactful support where necessary .
8 Once the pain and muscle soreness disappears I 'll have to try and restore any muscles that might be in danger — and in doing that restore the nerve routes — the circuits , if you like — that link muscle and brain . ’
9 pretending to try and spill each other 's cocoa .
10 Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production .
11 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 .
12 We felt it was our duty to try and bring Frank back to himself .
13 As a result , it became very much easier for a minister to brush aside any interrogation , since not only was the original purpose of the question soon left behind , but also the frontbenches have tended to intervene to try and score broader party points to which the minister in turn makes the usual party retort .
14 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 .
15 The purpose of this chapter is to try and clarify these issues by asking : ( a ) what is quality in health care ? ( b ) whose quality are we talking about ? ( c ) how can quality be turned into a reality in the new NHS ?
16 It is best to try and group all mains-voltage components into one area rather than disperse them around the board .
17 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 .
18 All the same , what 's attractive about Russell is his readiness to admit failures , and to try and suggest new solutions .
19 The purpose of the present chapter is to note some of the practical difficulties of managing book provision programmes , to try and suggest minimum system requirements for effective management and finally to outline briefly the important features of existing management systems .
20 Education in schools , colleges and youth projects to try and prevent young people from sniffing may help to reduce casualties .
21 erm so I mean for example with something like statistics that covers different techniques and activities from , you know , different books erm something like erm something like social most of it comes out of that which is a thing we did because people were experiencing difficulty with it so we thought well right we 'll , we 'll , we 'll sort of anchor the syllabus mostly to , you know , one particular book erm so different , different staff use different techniques , some people ha have drawn on a whole variety of things and , and , and some people have just drawn on one erm I think the main priority is to try and do some coursework though in your case erm
22 you all to try and do this time is to avoid if you can mouthing words , mouthing dialogue .
23 The United States , and some other Western governments , went to considerable lengths to try and discredit these elections as being not free , but fraudulent .
24 One thing I should mention is that you 'd be advised to try and view these videos on a stereo VCR , as many of the recorded examples — panning , for example — are pretty meaningless otherwise .
25 On completion the project would go on display at Burns garage for a while and then be used to try and generate more interest in aviation in the area .
26 Two hours later we were ready to start fishing so we baited the cat rods with squid and cast these out at varying distances to try and locate any patrol routes that were being used .
27 Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be .
28 I mean , in the long run their both , they both give the same outcome , alright , but farmers want to try and avoid that variability of income , alright , so they 'll much prefer to , instead of having , you know , they probably prefer erm , a certain income of forty pounds rather than erm , an equal chance of getting one hundred pounds or zero .
29 Amidst a diversity of close-up film analysis and theoretical arguments from all angles then , it might be useful to try and present some sort of an overview .
30 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 .
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