Example sentences of "tries [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurd tries to heal split with China over Hong Kong |
| 2 | He tries to gather information about a certain underground political organisation . ’ |
| 3 | He tries to gather reinforcements : |
| 4 | As the blood tries to flow backwards , the pockets fill up , closing the valves so that blood is prevented from flowing in the wrong direction . |
| 5 | Like , sometimes it might be a prostitute , she never got paid for her services and she tries to claim she 's been raped . |
| 6 | Greenfield tries to claim more than this , as do Hildyard and Olson . |
| 7 | There can be fewer more devastating experiences in life than to be thrust from a situation of regular employment with all the stature that this entails , to becoming an enforced member of society 's underclass , the unemployed the situation with a total lack of dignity , ask anyone who tries to claim benefits , the situation with a loss of social standing and frustration at unachievable ambitions . |
| 8 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 9 | Many a club golfer tries to swing harder , or tries to beat the wind conditions with mid-swing adjustments . |
| 10 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 11 | ( Peg tries to go over to Abberley . |
| 12 | I 'm going to tell him it 's my time of the month , if he tries to go too far . |
| 13 | When Rebekah suggests that Jacob take his brother 's place , or when Potiphar 's wife tries to seduce Joseph , or Tamar calls attention to Judah 's progeny , their interference breaks up the exclusive father-son dialogue and forces recognition of their presence … . |
| 14 | During filming he became firm friends with Steve McQueen , who played a psychopathic , womanizing American bomber captain who tries to seduce his co-pilot 's English girlfriend , only to be told a few home truths about his attitude to people and war . |
| 15 | The wasp strays in , eats a little honey , warms itself , tries to sting and travels out to some winter lair . |
| 16 | Poole is worried by the ‘ Englishness of English art — it 's so middle-class ’ , and tries to paint ‘ deficiencies in character ’ , if they are there , confessing to have portrayed at least one arrogant captain of industry in his true light . |
| 17 | he tends to thump ye Before he tries to hump ye Then |
| 18 | A similar special course , known as the ‘ Summer School ’ , runs for life sentence prisoners and also tries to stimulate interest and enjoyment in equal measure . |
| 19 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 20 | When one actually tries to perform these sums , however , one runs into severe technical problems . |
| 21 | ‘ He made his money in them , ’ Patrick gravely explained , ‘ and now he tries to pretend he did n't , because he wants people to think he 's always been rich . |
| 22 | Lip-curling japes ensure as Newt firs tries to evict the compulsively fanciful Gwen , then agrees to go along with her charade , just to make his intended fiancée jealous . |
| 23 | The group arranges transport and pushers , works out a suitable route and tries to arrange a pub lunch and tea . |
| 24 | Rufus tries to arrange a car to pick them up in Bermondsey but he 's having no luck . |
| 25 | But he is regarded as one of the quickest men in Welsh rugby and has 198 career tries to support the claim . |
| 26 | He believes the Witches ' prophecy about his own king-ship , and tries to fulfil it ; he believes their warning about Macduff and tries to cancel it . |
| 27 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 28 | When we have those results we will really be able to sort out what is going on when a golfer tries to hit that wee white ball . |
| 29 | He has temper tantrums if he ca n't get his own way , and he even tries to hit me . |
| 30 | They dictate the shape of many land-holdings , parishes , counties , and even parts of the Welsh and Scottish borders , as is well known to the poor river engineer who has to negotiate with different landowners , not to mention councils , on opposing banks as he tries to promote his scheme . |