Example sentences of "try [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On these occasions , the hon. Member for Oldham , West is always quick to try to compare social security with the Inland Revenue 's processing of people 's tax returns . |
| 2 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 3 | She tried to sound pleased , casual , anything except embarrassed and as miserable as she did now . |
| 4 | I tried to sound casual . |
| 5 | Emily tried to sound casual . |
| 6 | He tried to sound casual , as if the new urgency was only a whim . |
| 7 | Wycliffe tried to sound casual as though these nautical exercises were everyday events . |
| 8 | She tried to sound casual . |
| 9 | Peter tried to sound casual , but Sarella could see he was worried underneath . |
| 10 | He tried to sound jocular but realised that he sounded almost pleading . |
| 11 | He tried to sound jocular . |
| 12 | I tried to sound confident . |
| 13 | D'Arcy tried to sound encouraging . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern tried to sound firm and innocent although , as he was desperately aware , sounding feeble — and guilty . |
| 15 | She tried to sound enthusiastic . |
| 16 | She tried to sound calm and reassuring , but he turned away before she had finished speaking , as if her words meant nothing to him . |
| 17 | Caroline tried to sound compassionate . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's not long now , ’ she tried to sound cheerful and bracing as she saw her neighbour 's lower lip tremble . |
| 19 | Grimma tried to sound cheerful . |
| 20 | She tried to sound brisk , but the tremor in her voice was unmistakable . |
| 21 | She tried to sound airy . |
| 22 | I tried to sound bitter . |
| 23 | She tried to sound flippant , though she suddenly wondered if she had n't gone a bit far . |
| 24 | She tried to sound nonchalant . |
| 25 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 26 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 27 | Erm I take all the motions , first to try to assure these people that we shall , we are that will be taken and I hope that that er has been achieved . |
| 28 | Yugoslavia , in short , had a right to try to remain undivided . |
| 29 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 30 | Cuvier tried to evade one disturbing implication of extinction by linking the phenomenon to his theory of catastrophic geological changes . |