Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not try " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 2 | There is a great gulf between ‘ popular culture ’ ( excuse me if I do not try to define the term ) and contemporary art . |
| 3 | But I do not try to re-read the text to make it more acceptable ; I dissociate myself from Shakespeare 's outlook . |
| 4 | I am against circuses with animal acts , and I do not try and stand outside a circus and stop people going in . |
| 5 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 6 | Although I could not understand his language , I understood that they would be friendly towards me — if I did not try to harm them . |
| 7 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 8 | She lapsed into a deep silence which I did not try to disturb . |
| 9 | ‘ For the last time , I did not try and seduce you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If this offer is not accepted no one can ever say that I did not try to help my club . |
| 11 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 12 | I hope you did not try too hard to put the Princess off . ’ |
| 13 | The oldest rule in the Westminster book is that you do not try to reach difficult decisions in the last week of July . |
| 14 | With BM YOU do not try to unravel the typist 's feelings or motivations . |
| 15 | You do not try to catch them out , to trap them or to expose them as inadequate in any way . |
| 16 | It is strongly recommended that you do not try to control the Z88 's hardware with this command — a mistake can be disastrous . |
| 17 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 18 | She did not try to defend herself . |
| 19 | She did not try to answer or to turn it aside . |
| 20 | She did come top , though she did not try and hoped she would n't . |
| 21 | She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets . |
| 22 | She did not try , this time , to keep her voice steady . |
| 23 | It was then that the lump in her throat would break and spill the tears from her eyes and cause her to make choking sounds which she did not try to prevent , knowing they would not penetrate Mrs Aggie 's deep snoring . |
| 24 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 25 | Bathsheba 's eyes filled with tears , and she did not try to hide her anger and her injured pride . |
| 26 | She did not try to touch him , although she longed to comfort him . |
| 27 | Aunt Emily may have been spoiled but she was irresistibly spoilable because she was so generous , so imaginative , she did not try to destroy people 's pictures of themselves as you do , but helped them to build them up ! |
| 28 | Lisa had not forgotten and she did not try to deny it . |
| 29 | But she did not try . |
| 30 | When she encounters a mess , like the ridiculous raid on the Moncada barracks that made Mr Castro 's revolutionary reputation , she does not try to impose sense where there was none . |