Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rubbing a weary hand over her face , she tried to estimate how long she had slept . |
| 3 | Endill tried to see where he was but it was too dark and he waited , not daring to move , for the Headmaster to put on the lights . |
| 4 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 5 | In writing this book , it has been my intention to try to see how war , over a period of 150 years or so , affected developments and changes in two of Europe 's leading societies , those of France and England . |
| 6 | was to try to see how things could be reduced and enlarged . |
| 7 | Because each spin may be slightly different , it is important not to try to guess how far to move forwards . |
| 8 | We tell Nat to stay where he is , brushing the snow from his bag to try to minimize how wet it will be . |
| 9 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 10 | It seems important , therefore , to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about . |
| 11 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 12 | There was a pause while Ryan tried to remember where he had got to . |
| 13 | He tried to remember where he 'd been last . |
| 14 | Rincewind tried to remember where he had seen it before . |
| 15 | Lindsey lay for a few seconds , battling with a sense of disorientation , one arm flung over her face as she tried to remember where she was . |
| 16 | Bob tried to remember why he had n't told her . |
| 17 | She tried to remember why a gathering storm upset people . |
| 18 | I tried to remember when Mrs McDougall had said the old lady had died . |
| 19 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 20 | I tried to remember when you said he was born . |
| 21 | Tried to remember how he was supposed to feel . |
| 22 | Richard tried to remember how much he 'd liked Simon . |
| 23 | It is important to look behind the aggregate figures of local sourcing to try to identify where linkage effects could realistically be expected to result from the transnational practices of established and potential TNCs , and what the host authorities could realistically hope to do about it in terms of their transnational practices . |
| 24 | Sandison tried to gauge how many he had already had but was unsure . |
| 25 | I tried to imagine why he lived such a quiet and lonely life in this far-off place . |
| 26 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 27 | Jaq tried to imagine how Googol viewed him . |
| 28 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 29 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |