Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would ask those who will be participating in the classes to try to wear either Medau blue or navy blue leotards , tunics , tights because this is visually more pleasing . |
| 2 | Maggie tried to sound quite innocent but Ana smiled a touch bitterly . |
| 3 | She tried to sound as bright as possible . |
| 4 | I tried to sound as matter-of-fact about it as possible , and she picked up my tone . |
| 5 | It is also important for the observer to try to remain as objective as possible . |
| 6 | The resistance to the idea of one-way financial support can also be deduced from evidence about the circumstances under which people tried to evade legally defined financial responsibilities to kin . |
| 7 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 8 | The Council of ( Agriculture ) Ministers on Dec. 20 agreed measures to try to conserve sharply declining stocks of fish , particularly cod and haddock , in the North Sea . |
| 9 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
| 10 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 11 | For years I tried to paint around grasses and tried masking fluid ; however neither approach gave me a satisfactory result . |
| 12 | He cut her throat , stabbed her in the stomach and tried to poke out her eyes with his fingers . |
| 13 | He tried to breathe slowly , calming himself as he waited . |
| 14 | His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself . |
| 15 | I tried to breathe even less . |
| 16 | He tried to breathe steadily , but the noises from upstairs disturbed him . |
| 17 | I must be crazy , I thought , and tried to breathe deeply and steadily . |
| 18 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 19 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 20 | As much as NME tried to pretend otherwise , the average reader was not spending his nights watching Trouble Funk at the Town & Country Club . |
| 21 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 22 | John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 . |
| 23 | In the second half , Watford tried to hit back , but there was no way through when Digby 's on his best form . |
| 24 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 25 | In public , people tried to carry on with their lives , while at home they were starting to prepare for what was to come . |
| 26 | And if they tried to carry out any of those threats in the letter — |
| 27 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 28 | She tried to sit up . |
| 29 | Endill tried to sit up to get a better look but as he did so , knocked over a book and it thumped onto the shelf . |
| 30 | She tried to sit up , for her visitor . |