Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding himself in some difficulties , with his ship seized by order of the customs commissioners in Edinburgh , Bailie Hooks offered to try to carry the burgh of Wigtown for the candidate favoured by the Duke of Argyll in return for some ready cash and the expectation of assistance with the Court of Exchequer . |
| 2 | Amiss tried to sound no more than mildly interested . |
| 3 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |
| 4 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 5 | Yesterday , the unyielding men of terror tried to claim the province 's 3,001st victim . |
| 6 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 7 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 8 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 9 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 10 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 11 | The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding . |
| 12 | During 1990 and early 1991 the Vietnamese leadership continued to try to implement the plan initiated by Nguyen Van Linh in 1986 to transform the country 's centralized economy to a market-orientated system . |
| 13 | In some organizations it is futile to try to implement an idea-handling procedure of any kind . |
| 14 | A further court case , in which Lothar Neethling from the forensic laboratory , now a lieutenant-general and number three in the South African Police , tried to sue a newspaper for calling him a poisoner , showed Coetzee to be a reliable and accurate witness . |
| 15 | We were asked to try to arrange an inter-club table show with Hulton Aquarist Society . |
| 16 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 17 | The swarm struck after Jack Ibbs tried to swat a queen bee from his cab in a lay-by in Upavon , Wilts . |
| 18 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 19 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 20 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 21 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 22 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 23 | In 1913 Lord Selborne tried to mount a campaign against the sale of honours but he had a lukewarm response : Salisbury thought it would not achieve anything useful , Lansdowne urged that the views of the party organizers should be sought , and Law urged him " not to obscure the Marconi issue " . |
| 24 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 25 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 26 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 27 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 28 | It reluctantly accepted many of Gorbachev 's proposed reforms ( it had no alternative to offer , apart from more of the policies of the past — and no effective alternative leader ) , but conservatives with vested interests tried to restore the status quo in the 1991 coup attempt . |
| 29 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 30 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |