Example sentences of "try and [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case . |
| 2 | you all to try and do this time is to avoid if you can mouthing words , mouthing dialogue . |
| 3 | To try and answer this question , it is necessary to look in more detail at the anatomy of the current slump in the housing market and assess why it has been so much more severe than previous downturns . |
| 4 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 5 | Give yourself full marks for having the determination to try and put this girl out of your mind . |
| 6 | A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem . |
| 7 | However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out . |
| 8 | Attempts have been made to try and address this problem in relation to the needs of all children and families . |
| 9 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 10 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 11 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 12 | Want 's a transfer , there was hundred 's of people on the list to try and get this way , I mean it 's like this women who took Jane 's house , to swop Jane , she did n't even come and look at Jane , she said yes I 'll have it |
| 13 | We 'll have to try and get this suit organized . |
| 14 | But you 'd be a fool to try and get this agility if you have n't got those safe levels suppleness , strength , stamina and coordination cos you 'd be asking for trouble . |
| 15 | Are n't you tempted to try and buy this house for yourself ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Are you actually inviting them to try and mount this operation , sir ? ’ |
| 17 | The object of the game is to try and become this Priest of Paris , who begins the game choosing any number and saying , for example : ‘ The Priest of Paris has lost his ( her ) thinking cap . |
| 18 | You did ask erm for us to try and help this examination by giving some indication of the differences between shall we say , the two sides of the debate . |
| 19 | Look at the question and then just close the book and say right I 'm going to try and solve this equation . |
| 20 | It is n't merely a matter of training and qualifications , it 's a matter of religious commitment as well and most teachers nowadays take the view that to try and teach this subject without that religious commitment is sheer hypocrisy . |
| 21 | It is , therefore , unwise to try and see this kind of evidence in association with rebel or enemy activities . |
| 22 | Narrow your stance and pull your rear hip back to try and reduce this profile , but notice also how this makes you gradually more and more susceptible to a foot sweep . |
| 23 | We hope now that management will try and resolve this situation either through redeployment or retraining , or further consultation . ’ |
| 24 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 25 | But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly . |
| 26 | ‘ Tomorrow , when she sees the head man , I 'll go with you , Kate , and we 'll try and sort this business out . |
| 27 | Leave that with me I 'll I 'll get in contact with Steve and I 'll try and get this list sorted . |
| 28 | ‘ We all agreed that we should try and commemorate this event , ’ he said . |
| 29 | So , they says , well I 'll tell you what we 'll try and find this Mr so and so , and , we 'll get in contact with you . |
| 30 | We must try and put this shock reversal in Boston to one side . |