Example sentences of "try and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it would be easier to try and draw them together so that we have got this document with the position so far , as we have a lot . |
| 2 | As Roy said , ‘ How can you feel anything but deep affection for a man who has the humility and sincerity not to try and bluff it out ? ’ |
| 3 | But there 's a whole range of behaviours which one can include in sexual harassment , going from fairly mundane every day things which just grind people down and which grind people down because they happen on a constant basis , to very serious once in a while sorts of behaviours , and to try and categorise them as major or minor does n't really get us very close to being what the issue is about . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've got to try and bring her about . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because , ’ the Doctor answered , a little hoarse himself , ‘ the enhancer works both ways , and the Old One 's survival instinct is letting him draw on its excess life-force to try and bring it back into the world . |
| 7 | Cos if it is , how much are we gon na have to pay for it , and why and what can we do to try and bring it back in . |
| 8 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 9 | You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's |
| 10 | Immediately Alex thought : so that 's why she invited me to dinner , to try and match me up with her semi-alcoholic brother . |
| 11 | So I went back , dressed , and off I went , called the and I went up to try and beat it off . |
| 12 | I think she was going to try and throw it out of the window but she did n't have the strength . |
| 13 | Laidlaw knew he could be overreacting from lack of sleep — it could have been a plan to try and break him down : a voice , no face . |
| 14 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 15 | It is in fact all oil , but for trying to understand the thing it 's better to try and break it down if we can , and that 's what 's being done here . |
| 16 | He agreed that the prison had a long-standing reputation of having a liberal regime and added , ‘ I would have been mad to try and change it radically . |
| 17 | And you have to try and think it differently . |
| 18 | Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think |
| 19 | You 're not going to try and talk me out of it , I hope . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My father asked you to try and talk me out of getting married ? ’ |
| 21 | Your father asked me to try and talk you out of this engagement , to try and find out what you felt about this boy . |
| 22 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |
| 23 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 24 | It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it . |
| 25 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 26 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt he was going to try and hit me again so I stuck my right hand out . |
| 28 | A fatal flaw in using percentages is to try and add them up when this is not really possible . |
| 29 | And er yes , I used to try and follow him as much as I could . |
| 30 | She asked the person who answered her to try and find him as soon as possible and to ask him to contact her in Cairo immediately as there is an extremely urgent matter she needs to talk to him about . |