Example sentences of "[verb] try [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 2 | That was why her mother had this outlandish name of which she was so proud and which Alexandra had tried to keep from her few childhood friends . |
| 3 | But when this was over , Eleanor would deeply regret that she had tried to interfere with his personal life . |
| 4 | I could n't square what I was doing with the view of the world I have tried to transmit to my pubescent son : sex is a wonderful thing but it should be part of a loving relationship . |
| 5 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 6 | This was surely the lesson of the Macdonald Inquiry 's critique of antiracist education at Burnage High School , and this is what I have tried to indicate through my critical interrogations of the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism — especially in relation to the multifaceted nature of racism and the complexities of its intersection with gender and class ( see also Cohen and Rattansi , 1991 ) . |