"try and provide" is a valid construction in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of doing something with a goal. For example, "We will try and provide our customers with a better shopping experience."
"At the academy I try and provide a family background.
Can the very bodies set up to try and provide help, paradoxically end up causing harm?
And charity represents the effort to try and provide direct services to people.
It's about the system that we apply and the pressure that people are under to try and provide services".
"Of course I want to score goals – that is a big aim for me, and I will try and provide more assists.
"We do try and provide it as best we can but not to the level that would really make a difference to the customer".
Many care workers get little, if any, training and are forced to try and provide care in slots that last barely 15 minutes.
One of our main projects this trip will be to try and provide the community with a new, safer, and better functioning mill for their yuca processing.
"This could create such an onerous business process that it wouldn't be financially prudent to try and provide Connecticut residents with U-verse," said David Mancuso, director of public affairs for AT&T.
Working with other young, potentially vulnerable people in the area, Sheikh explains the approach: "We can't do it in a direct way, so we try and provide diversionary activities," he says.
His life, he said, changed irrevocably when he visited an exhibition in London some 25 years ago that was mounted "to try and provide a visual resource for 20th-century design".
