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

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1 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 .
2 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 ?
3 The United States , and some other Western governments , went to considerable lengths to try and discredit these elections as being not free , but fraudulent .
4 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 .
5 In product markets characterised by complex production processes long-term supply contracts or sub-contracts are commonly used to try and lower these costs .
6 Most people are amazed to get an answer from the band at all , so it is good business and public relations to try and answer these enquiries .
7 But the arrogance of the people and yet when we 're going to work , we 've got to try and combat these people , and what help have you got ?
8 To try and address these problems , the New Business sales team , which has hitherto been organised around operating system environments , is to refocus on the requirements of specific industry sectors .
9 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 .
10 And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law .
11 I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then
12 ‘ She used the Christmas season of goodwill to try and murder these men .
13 While they were there , complicated moves were made to try and have these orders extended by a Children 's Panel Hearing in Inverness , but the case was sent back to the Orkney Panel .
14 I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er
15 You should try and amalgamate these DCs so that the total does not exceed 10 .
16 ‘ You keep your thumb in your mouth , ’ she advised , ‘ and I 'll try and get these stains out . ’
17 What we 're finding is that the discoveries in interstellar space are making us try new experiments and erm try and reproduce these conditions , perhaps in the laboratory , and then go on to discover new molecules in space and understand the processes that give rise to the molecules .
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