Example sentences of "[verb] try [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the LBS has tried to get away from the British ‘ crumpled suit ’ image with him , ’ Bloch says , ‘ then , boy , has it succeeded . |
| 2 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 3 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 4 | If I 'd tried to walk out along the trail , I would have met Perkin face to face . |
| 5 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
| 6 | Mark : I certainly identify with the attitude of a contradiction between my one-to-one relationships and the image of what should happen to try to get away from the heterosexual attitude to relationships . |
| 7 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 8 | It 's at that point that many women start trying to get back into the labour market and at that point it is extremely difficult , so I think that we 're talking about a number of things . |
| 9 | We come therefore to synthesise the ideas I had tried to put over in the preceding chapters . |
| 10 | She had tried to get out of the car when he was driving and he considered it lucky that they had n't been killed , but as he and I were together more I came to admire her resolution and good sense . |
| 11 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 12 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 13 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 14 | The people of the Baltic states will be baffled at the petty party points that Conservative Members have tried to make out of the great victory that was achieved by those people . |