Example sentences of "try [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The swarm struck after Jack Ibbs tried to swat a queen bee from his cab in a lay-by in Upavon , Wilts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | According to reports at the time , McAvennie and a couple of unnamed cohorts left the club 's annual Christmas dinner and tried to gatecrash a private party being held in the hotel by West Ham 's commercial manager Brian Blower . |
| 8 | Rostov walked a little way off , squatted on his heels on the grass , and tried to pretend a calm he did not feel . |
| 9 | This bad timing is typical for Deirdre , who once tried to kill a faithless lover with an ashtray , but succeeded only in setting the hotel room on fire . |
| 10 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |
| 11 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |
| 12 | THE UVF have admitted they tried to kill a Protestant man in east Belfast last night . |
| 13 | The shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a Belfast nightspot . |
| 14 | The latest shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a central Belfast nightspot . |
| 15 | Some Boards tried to preserve a sense of identity , basing districts on pre-nationalisation undertakings ( encouraging rivalry between them ) , while others aimed to blur old loyalties in merged districts , and encouraged increased cooperation between them . |
| 16 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 17 | I could see he was n't the type to try to seduce a virgin . |
| 18 | The government tried to implement a ‘ scientific ’ approach to crime , but despite the exhortations of officials , headmen did not report crimes promptly . |
| 19 | A pensioner is in hospital with serious burns after her house exploded as she tried to light a gas fire . |
| 20 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 21 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
| 22 | If you were to try to see a top specimen of every breed at Crufts you would have to attend on all four days and walk a good couple of miles ! |
| 23 | Scott tried to arrange a counter address to Palmerston and obtained eighteen or nineteen names , but ‘ the Gothic architects did not come forward in sufficient force to make it worth while ’ . |
| 24 | During 1990 Hoylake withdrew its bid for BAT , partly because of problems encountered with the US regulatory authorities when it tried to arrange a buyer for BAT 's US insurance business . |
| 25 | Early in the Algerian War Camus tried to arrange a truce , but after the failure of this initiative and the disappearance of any middle ground between the FLN-led Muslims and the French pieds noirs , he maintained a besieged mentality . |
| 26 | Thongsouk Saysangkhi also reportedly tried to establish a ‘ social democrat club ’ to promote the idea of multi-party democracy and , with other dissenters , wrote an article supporting such a political system . |
| 27 | Despite the provision for votes ( weighted broadly according to members ' population size ) the Council usually tried to establish a unanimous position among the member states . |
| 28 | The Committee , made up of officials from each country , discussed policy proposals by the Commission and , again , tried to establish a unanimous view . |
| 29 | The geographer Vaughan Cornish tried to establish a scientific basis for the study of scenic heritage . |
| 30 | When in 92 B.C. somebody tried to establish a school of eloquence in Latin — presumably to serve some popularis cause — the censors of the day were firmly against it ; they declared themselves in favour of Greek , as against Latin , rhetoric ( Suet . |