Example sentences of "try [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 2 | Maggie tried to sound firm . |
| 3 | A PUBLICAN who set fire to his car and tried to claim insurance has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service . |
| 4 | Apparently he 'd brought the corpse in and then tried to claim commission on it . |
| 5 | He tried to dilute Judi 's images of her sister with objectivity , with his own observations , with Cam 's tightly-guarded feelings , with the pathetic and stupid judgements of Clive , Amelia and a few of Amelia 's guests , and with the slight tastes of her he had sampled at the entrance to the maze . |
| 6 | COMPUTER ASSOCIATES TRIED TO ACQUIRE NOVELL |
| 7 | There must be a commitment by management to enable the staff member to try to implement ideas and methods learned on the course . |
| 8 | ‘ There was excruciating pain in my bottom , ’ he told Worthing County Court in 1986 , when his parents tried to sue Mr Blackshaw . |
| 9 | He tried using lithium salts to quieten manic patients . |
| 10 | I tried using C some years ago without much success . |
| 11 | Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak . |
| 12 | The NCC cited an allegation by Suffolk Citizen 's Advice Bureau of a woman on income support who telephoned the bailiff 's office to try to arrange payment in instalments of her Community Charge arrears . |
| 13 | Martin Foulds reported that Len 's alcohol problem had been previously discussed with the medical team and it had been decided to try to arrange counselling for him . |
| 14 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 15 | Erm I tried phoning James the the place where he 's actually doing this training course . |
| 16 | The sample of staff was structured to reflect the organization of services in each district , for example , where several community mental health teams were operating , we tried to include representatives from each team , and to balance our data between people concerned with care of elderly people and those involved with younger service users . |
| 17 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 18 | Farmers traditionally tried to get rid of creatures in which they had no direct commercial interest , and town dwellers tried to banish moles , squirrels , and foxes from their gardens , and bats from their lofts . |
| 19 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 20 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 21 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 22 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 23 | When a detachment of Argyll and Sunderland Highlanders tried to restore order , twenty-four of them were killed and seventy wounded . |
| 24 | The adults were almost holding each other up but the little brownies and wolf cubs made my most appreciative audience , breaking their ranks and staggering about helplessly in the roadway while their leaders tried to restore order . |
| 25 | Parties of twenty or thirty of them were liable to turn up at any Political gathering of which they disapproved , and their chant of " Left-is-right " , added to their readiness to fight anyone who tried to restore order , broke up meeting after meeting . |
| 26 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 27 | SHERPA Tashi Tenzing , 27 , grandson of Tenzing Norgay , one of the two men who first climbed Mt Everest , yesterday told a New Zealand newspaper he planned to try to scale mountain on 29 May , the 40th anniversary of the first ascent . |
| 28 | DENIS EVANS , the Welsh Rugby Union secretary , has condemned the supporter who tried to trip David Campese as he left the pitch on Saturday . |
| 29 | Alexander tried to steady Muscovites by visiting the city in September 1855 , but his visit was offset by the effect on public opinion of the Westernizers ' laments for Granovskii , who died after a short illness on 4 October . |
| 30 | Mr Christie immediately pledged to try to restore trust and harmony to the club 's warring board . |