Example sentences of "try as [adv] [subord] possible [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 2 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 3 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 4 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 5 | I shall try as far as possible to discuss matters of principle rather than of particular detail . |
| 6 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 7 | As you do so , try as far as possible to keep to the basic sense of the passage . |
| 8 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 9 | In the pages that follow , I 'll be trying as frankly as possible to tell you something about myself — my childhood in Devon and Cornwall , my days as a newspaper reporter and those as a lance-corporal in the army ( not to mention the occasional hazardous romance in up-market Port Said ! ) and then , since 1961 , my career in television . |