Example sentences of "[pron] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 2 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 3 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 4 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 5 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 6 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 7 | By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country . |
| 8 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 9 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 10 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 11 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 12 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 13 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 14 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 15 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |
| 16 | The rest of the group , all students , turned on Mr Allan who tried to fend off the blows . |
| 17 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 19 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 20 | Your mouth goes hard and ugly as you try to choke back the tears , but it is honest . ’ |
| 21 | The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity . |
| 22 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 23 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 24 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 25 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 26 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 27 | In Nicosia 's Eoka museum , pictures of British troops when they tried to fight off the separatists . |
| 28 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 29 | Then they tried to bring in the general . ’ |
| 30 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |