"try and pursue" is acceptable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the action of making an effort to achieve a goal. For example: "He tried and pursued a successful career in the medical field."
But I felt the itch and left that job to try and pursue a few projects which had been forming in my mind during this time.
The antitrust point is something he could try and pursue, but it would not be in his power to pronounce Amazon guilty and it is very doubtful that any other government agency would do so.
This is once you've decided that you're going to be an active manager and try and pursue market beating strategies, how do you decide where it is that you want to spend your time and energy?
I mean we see these Zombie initiatives, right, that they sort of rise from the dead because they've got an agenda associated with them and people find little hidden pockets of resource or think they do to try and pursue them.
"If you can get a player we feel is value for money and makes us better, we'll try and pursue that," he said.
"We have backed Neil Warnock in bringing in his two top targets, Jay Bothroyd and Kieron Dyer, and we are working hard to try and pursue a couple of other targets the coach has identified.
This means giving lots of different things a try and pursuing the things that you love.
Ask questions, don't be afraid to try, and most of all, pursue your passions!
We had our Special Forces guys doing what they needed to do, which was mop up and try to pursue the remnants of Al Qaeda and some of the Taliban.
In brief: Two migrant workers bear the emotional and economic brunt of the Depression as they look for work and try to pursue their dream of owning their own farm.
They take that myth more seriously and try to pursue it".
