Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] try [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the two day event I understand nearly 20,000 people attended the show and at times my car was four or five deep , people of various different ages just trying to get a glimpse or take pictures . |
| 2 | Sat for ages tonight trying to have a vision but nothing happened . |
| 3 | Ramsey knew of the bitterness engendered by the coal royalties paid to the Church , and how the miners once tried to throw a bishop into the River Wear . |
| 4 | Union leaders are meeting management tomorrow to try to find a way of softening the blow . |
| 5 | But with tax payments to the Government last year of £755m eating into slim profits , Mr Horton is to see Mr Lamont shortly to try to produce a change of mind . |
| 6 | RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells . |
| 7 | For the next four years her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru . |
| 8 | Eleven-year-old Boris is out at the blackboard publicly trying to simplify a fraction while his teacher is being excruciatingly patient and restraining the rest of the class who are bursting to put Boris right . |
| 9 | X/OPEN STILL TRYING TO CUT A DEAL WITH OSF |
| 10 | At Maidstone , where the company had moved from Reading , a maid-servant had seen Drew frantically trying to remove a stain from his jacket ; the operation had taken half an hour . |
| 11 | In Whitby Way vandals unsuccessfully tried to set a car ablaze by throwing a jar containing flammable liquid and lighted rag at it . |
| 12 | He said Mr Hawthorne then tried to grab a bowl but Mills , 18 , knocked it out of his hand . |
| 13 | Teacher training also tried to provide a methodology and techniques to deal with rural multi-grade schools , which require different skills from those in single grade teaching . |
| 14 | Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels . |
| 15 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 16 | The Profitboss always tries to develop a relationship of mutual trust and respect with union representatives , ensuring that the best interests of the people are clearly understood and honestly represented . |
| 17 | In what seemed like an innocuous joke , Nicholas allegedly tried to steal a chip from a holiday-maker outside the ‘ Confusion Bar ’ in San Antonio on the holiday island of Ibiza . |
| 18 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |