Example sentences of "try [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
| 2 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 3 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 4 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 5 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 6 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 7 | He reached across the table and took her hand , which was a nuisance ; he would notice if she tried to look at her watch . |
| 8 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 9 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 10 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 11 | She tried to look at his features . |
| 12 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 13 | When , after perhaps quarter of an hour , the ice was opaque and solid as ever around the sides of the refrigerator , she became impatient and tried to chip at it , first with her fingers and then , finding them painful as well as useless , with the point of a kitchen knife . |
| 14 | He tried to smile at her . |
| 15 | She tried to smile at her mother , — genuinely sorry to have vexed her . |
| 16 | She tried to smile at him . |
| 17 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 18 | Peter Coni , chairman of the Stewards , announcing the new rules yesterday , criticised a growing number of top crews for entering lesser events at Henley ‘ rather than showing the ambition and confidence to try to win at a higher level ’ . |
| 19 | I always tell such guys to try to look at themselves from behind ! |
| 20 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 21 | For the first time in her life she forced herself to stand back , to try to look at her father impartially . |
| 22 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 23 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 24 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 25 | It turned back and tried to land at Malta , but was refused permission . |
| 26 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 27 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 28 | I tried to laugh at myself , but I did not succeed . |
| 29 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 30 | If you ca n't , then try , several times if necessary , to make file duplicates using the COPY command 's facility to rename a file whilst copying , such as COPY FILE.BA1 FILE.BA2 , to try to get at least one successful read on the lower capacity drive . |