Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I understand that people have high hopes for their tapes and I do try to see people who really believe in their stuff and who try to convince me it 's something I will want to hear . |
| 2 | It 's not a thing I 'm particularly good at , but I do try to put over our viewpoint . |
| 3 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 4 | I do try to give the rescue teams some feedback on the casualties , so that they know whether or not they did the right things . |
| 5 | One thing that I do try to do before writing an article , is to find out the availability of the particular fish . |
| 6 | But I do try to do let them down gently — unlike the way I handle my opponents . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I simply have n't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove — I 'd rather be out playing with the children or getting out and about , but I do try to make sure we eat well . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Although I do n't try to shock I do try to make the moment as vividly alive for the audience as I can and that 's a sort of crusade , ’ he admits . |
| 9 | ‘ I do try to understand everyone in the group but I feel like I 'm holding people up , ’ said one group member . |
| 10 | I feel that sometimes I do try to play God when I do try and keep people alive beyond reasonable times . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , I do try to think about what to do ; I do n't like to fall back on what comes automatically . |
| 12 | I do try to keep away from fattening foods , but my greatest weakness is chocolate cake . |
| 13 | ‘ And I did try to talk my way out of trouble . |
| 14 | Okay , well I did try to motivate them , motivate them to make the most of each person 's individual skills . |
| 15 | I can dramatize this by discussing the one time when I did try to aim for a distant target . |
| 16 | ( I did try to see him twice , but he was away all September . ) |
| 17 | ‘ When I started , ’ he recalls , ‘ I did try to follow old patterns , but it was n't easy , so I followed my imagination . |
| 18 | In the event , whenever I did try to grow it , it ended up looking like Jimi Hendrix 's . |
| 19 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 20 | Which I did try to tell |
| 21 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |
| 22 | If you do try to use them , the first row will knit but , as you knit the second row , where several tucked needles are side by side the yarn will come off the needles and jam the carriage . |
| 23 | If you do try to use them you must be very sure that they will be honoured or you will be generating bad rather than goodwill . |
| 24 | ‘ She did try to explain once , ’ said Rose . |
| 25 | What criteria should any experiment we made try to meet to satisfy the claim that the process we were studying was a necessary , sufficient and possibly even specific aspect of the memory formation process ? |
| 26 | It was a thriving thing and , but when electric supply in nineteen forty eight went nationalized , we lost a lot of members and er , we did try to carry it on , just Ipswich Borough Transport . |
| 27 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |
| 28 | We sorted out what we could pay , we did try to pay it but they still repossessed |
| 29 | ‘ We did try to make the guitar sound as different as possible , like with the song Backdoor Romeo . |
| 30 | But can I just answer that because hopefully we do we do try to listen and we try to give you what information you 're capable of taking at the time . |