Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock tried to explain but the policeman 's grip tightened on the revolver and he repeated the order . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State went on to say that he was concerned that the letter from Grand Metropolitan Estates tried to imply that the orders had forced the company into the action it was taking against the tenant . |
| 3 | A RARE SHOT OF LAURA AT THE HELM OF THEIR BOAT , QUAESO , WHILE JANE TRIES TO READ AND THE SEA IS CLAM . |
| 4 | Failure to try to recognise if the height is excessive at the start of the base leg |
| 5 | Time is short , but we must mobilise the full strength of our membership to try to ensure that the Bill is brought forward quickly . |
| 6 | Robert tried to remember whether the Egyptians had a cricket team and , if so , whether they were any good . |
| 7 | The author tries to prove that the disaster was also the main cause of the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Thérèse tried to remember that the priest represented Christ and must be right . |
| 9 | So Tottie tries to ensure that the baby will come early or late , helped by an unsuspecting neighbour called Mrs Bottom . |
| 10 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 11 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 12 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 13 | Nogai tried to pretend that the threat was of no consequence , but he did not interrupt again . |
| 14 | Blake tried to see but the people had formed a barrier preventing him from seeing what was on the ground . |
| 15 | The Thing tried to explain that the Ship went faster than the sun , although the sun actually stood still . |
| 16 | Many staff have worked well beyond the call of duty to try to ensure that the arrangements we need to put in place are both effective for service users and reflect the professional standards that characterise Lothian 's work and are important to its staff . |
| 17 | Successive Labour spokesmen tried to establish that the Thatcher Government did not have its heart in the health service . |
| 18 | The industry will be standing by gauging the heartiness of their handshakes and the sincerity of their smiles trying to decide whether the hatchet really is being buried or whether it 's merely a Christmas truce . |