Example sentences of "try and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in 10 of you bravely admitted that you wish you 'd married a different man , but your main concern is still to try and make things work . |
| 2 | Today she 's been looking to see what steps are being taken in the nation 's capital , to try and make life easier . |
| 3 | ‘ You could have told your men to try and make life difficult for me , in the hope that eventually I 'll get so fed up that I 'll accept your offer . |
| 4 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 5 | It was pro it was an attempt by an early attempt by the officers of the Greater York technical group to try and make progress . |
| 6 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |
| 7 | On second thoughts , if he was to try and make sense of the puzzle , he would need them for reference . |
| 8 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |
| 9 | Gilbert , with the edge of terror still in his voice , was talking to keep himself sane ; and the others were listening to try and make sense of the nightmare in which they found themselves . |
| 10 | Yep , well , I mean the objective of fire prevention is to , is to try and make places safer and to alert people to erm to the risks and dangers of fire , before it happens , that that 's , the objective is to er try and stop fires happening . |
| 11 | The Jockey Club will be taking steps next season to try and make quality jump racing more competitive . |
| 12 | For the rest of my life I mean to try and make amends by helping such people to live cleaner and healthier lives . ’ |
| 13 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 14 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |
| 15 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 16 | In the absence of more sophisticated software , and taking account of the desirability of direct client involvement , it was decided to try and make use of the same programme for record-keeping and analysis . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you 've come to try and make trouble , Ryan , do n't bother . ’ |
| 18 | So just to recap again we have to try and link Ascension Day to Pentecost . |
| 19 | I could ask my probation officer to try and sort things out , but I know she 'll deny it . |
| 20 | Tony Curtis was standing next to me so I said I was there to try and collect money from Mr Curtis . |
| 21 | They know about the unauthorized release of personal data , they have procedures to try and protect data , but there is a commercial imperative to keep customers happy when they have a problem with their credit card . |
| 22 | Accordingly , particularly in claims which on full liability have very limited value , it is sound economic sense to try and achieve settlement at least two weeks before the Proof and preferably more than that . |
| 23 | One of the main aims of our experiments was to try and detect candidate repressor proteins that might function through direct interaction with CREB . |
| 24 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 25 | This is actually tying this up with an exam question , I was looking through some past papers to try and spot things we may not have covered in detail . |
| 26 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 27 | get to try and choose site . |
| 28 | It seems ridiculous for me to try and offer excuses why we were so comprehensively beaten , but the fact that we were well below full strength certainly gave Alborne a ten-goal advantage . |
| 29 | President Bush is warning Saddam Hussein not to try and drag Israel into the Gulf crisis . |
| 30 | She has to try and drag Otto off Leonard . |