Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 2 | Just as he had had the nerve to try to pick up the casting director at his first audition , so he had the taste and — in sociological terms — the cheek to seek out the stylish and lovely Nina Bawden , later the novelist . |
| 3 | At the CPSU congress currently in session Gorbachev tried to play down the significance of the strikes , claiming that the " general strike " urged by independent miner 's leaders had not materialized . |
| 4 | Bachelard tries to think through the problem of how epistemological obstacles operated both before and after scientificity . |
| 5 | That was where they were before the Bank of England wasted £10billion trying to shore up the pound . |
| 6 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 7 | But it was one of my self-imposed duties to try to even out the peaks and troughs of his capricious temperament and make sure he produced his best golf when it mattered . |
| 8 | A hedgehog tries to climb up the net and when it hears you approach it promptly rolls up into a ball . |
| 9 | pressures that this Committee faces and the need to try to balance out the sufficience of needs across a wide range of interest groups and a wide range of , of er pupils and schools means that your decisions are never easy . |
| 10 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 11 | Former Senator Goodell tried to cheer up the Shah . |
| 12 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 13 | Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev and defence minister Pavel Grachev were today due to meet US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger in Geneva to try to wrap up the agreement . |
| 14 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 15 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 17 | And as urgent talks went on in London and Barcelona , the words returned to haunt the top officials trying to sort out the shambles . |
| 18 | There would have been no time for another member of the crew to try to take over the controls . |
| 19 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 20 | As defence-industry consultants try to work out the consequences , some predictions are unchanged . |
| 21 | Levinson , in Pragmatics ( 1983 ) , spends some thirty pages trying to pin down the term " pragmatics " . |
| 22 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 23 | De Gaulle was often depicted as a Don Quixote tilting at windmills or King Canute trying to turn back the waves , while the reality was that France was a middle-sized power with no prospect of returning to its Napoleonic glories . |
| 24 | Sir Colin flies back to England later this week to try to sort out the storm over the Pakistanis . |
| 25 | The main stand is a gutted shell and home games have been played at Guisborough while club staff try to thrash out the situation with insurers . |
| 26 | Similarly , transnational forces may be mainly responsive to these international financial organizations , or to the governments of the countries who control them , or to ‘ disinterested ’ international bureaucrats trying to sort out the mess . |
| 27 | Despite this there is a growing market in the sale of personal data , as companies and employers try to find out the details of our personal lives . |
| 28 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 29 | Normally , clients will want to support strong seasonal sales , but if , as sometimes happens , market seasonality has been created by promotional activity , it may make sense to try to even out the cycle by advertising in the low season . |
| 30 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |