Example sentences of "try [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers . |
| 2 | Is n't she the one you tried to persuade to come to our art class ? ’ |
| 3 | I tried to meditate to stimulate my faith but gave up . |
| 4 | The ANC shares the concern of the people and has , all the tame , tried to intervene to find an amicable solution to the problem . |
| 5 | Only last month the French navy intercepted and seized another Greenpeace ship which tried to land to establish a ‘ peace camp ’ on the main test island of Mururoa atoll , where more tests were due to begin next month . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd rather you tried to get to sleep , ’ he said dismissively . |
| 7 | Ross ( 36 ) from Wandsworth , south London , who told police he tried to brake to avoid the accident , pleaded not guilty by post and did not attend . |
| 8 | It was her first meeting with this grandchild , even though he had passed his third birthday , and she wanted to try to get to know him . |
| 9 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 10 | In my future , I would like to try to get to know lots of different types of people . |
| 11 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 12 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 13 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 14 | Grégoire was buried in the de Chavigny chapel , to the fury of Louise and the indifference of Jean-Paul , and Edouard tried to begin to rebuild his life . |
| 15 | She tried to rise to walk , but her legs would not let her . |
| 16 | So young people , who may be unhappy for a number of reasons , might try sniffing to seek attention or to escape from their problems . |
| 17 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | You might even try walking to work in them . |
| 20 | So if you could try to remember to bring down all the things you 'll want for the day , in the morning … ’ |
| 21 | I 've got ta , I 've got ta try begin to lose some . |
| 22 | The Bible 's right ( surprise , surprise ) , you should always try to get to know what a person is really like before deciding whether or not you want to build a deep friendship with them . |
| 23 | Do you try to get to know and understand other people ? |
| 24 | ‘ I will try to learn to understand , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The individual must try to act to reduce their level of stress as soon as possible . |
| 26 | But with help , they can try to begin to live again . |
| 27 | So you try to go to visit him , or him come over here ? |
| 28 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 29 | try to arrange to live and sleep in the same room |
| 30 | Try to remember to put your jewellery on last when getting ready ; hairsprays , nail enamels and make-up could tarnish the gold and also you might catch rings on zip fasteners or earrings and necklaces on clothing . |