Example sentences of "try [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried gamely to hold her head high and proud , but to no avail . |
| 2 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 3 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 4 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 5 | Jezrael tried only to skim the surface of her thoughts . |
| 6 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 7 | Thus you play into the hands of that force which desires your downfall and wishes to hinder your inner progress , leaving you to shut the gate on the prison you have built for yourself , afraid to step out and to try anew to overcome your weaknesses . |
| 8 | She tried fiercely to control the sudden rush of pleasure that hearing his voice again so soon gave her . |
| 9 | That day when she was eight she had disappeared , or as Rachel tried patiently to call it , wandered off . |
| 10 | So Anna was taken to her new home , where she was well cared for , and her new owner tried patiently to handle and groom her . |
| 11 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 12 | Two decades ago , Strahler tried valiantly to infuse a genetic approach into the subject but was greeted with meagre response … |
| 13 | Kissing Lizzy on the lips , she pushed back her hair from her face and tried valiantly to smile . |
| 14 | And Serena — glamour girl of Fiat Uno adverts — tried best to gloss over her partner 's scruffy appearance at their first photo-call . |
| 15 | Some tried already to sleep . |
| 16 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 17 | I felt as though I was being hung , drawn and quartered for my past , and the only way to live with what was happening to me was to try desperately to provoke some emotional reaction in you . |
| 18 | The Washington Post of July 16 reported that " before last month 's elections , it was Slovak nationalist politicians who seemed determined to end the federation , while Czech leaders tried doggedly to preserve the joint state " . |
| 19 | The Washington Post of July 16 reported that " before last month 's elections , it was Slovak nationalist politicians who seemed determined to end the federation , while Czech leaders tried doggedly to preserve the joint state " . |
| 20 | Sir Danvers Carew was an important and popular man and the police tried desperately to arrest the murderer and bring him to trial . |
| 21 | I threw myself at the door and tried desperately to open it . |
| 22 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 23 | The real significance of the Seventh Congress was , however , that it tried desperately to create the impression of a new approach . |
| 24 | Each tried desperately to grip the other , but it was impossible , and they were forced to lay perfectly still with their genitals interlocked until she was conscious of his emission shooting inside her oil-drenched love passage . |
| 25 | She tried desperately to control her voice . |
| 26 | Lizzy felt her voice rising and tried desperately to control it . |
| 27 | He tried desperately to control his voice . |
| 28 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 29 | Gravellier tried desperately to read it upside-down . |
| 30 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |