Example sentences of "[adv] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 2 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 3 | Even if you can actually design antibodies which will fight the disease for the patient , it 's still very much trying to hold back the disease progress . |
| 4 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |
| 5 | He says that 's nonsense we 're just trying to brighten up the churches image in this drab end of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | All these women are expressing a primal female energy that 's perhaps unconsciously trying to balance out the spirit of rock , super-macho style . |
| 7 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 8 | Between them they managed to organize £50,000 from ICFC on a three-month note and rapidly tried to straighten out the balance sheet . |
| 9 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la Uniforum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and hopefully try to clear up the COSE confusion — see back page . |
| 10 | I 'm still trying to give up the cigarettes you know ? |
| 11 | The Villa boss was still trying to pick up the pieces after his side 's shock exit from the Coca-Cola Cup in Tuesday night 's fourth round replay at Ipswich . |
| 12 | But for the moment these designs remain just that : the experts are still trying to sort out the answers that chickens have given them and , until they do , can not finalise a commercial prototype for improved cages . |
| 13 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 14 | Anybody who 's still trying to work out the story about the wreath and the river , there was n't any point to it . |
| 15 | His mind was still trying to work out the puzzle she had set him . |
| 16 | Oxford United 's new owners are still trying to shake off the Maxwell legacy . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad I did it , but I 'm still trying to grow out the damage . |
| 18 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 19 | Mr Major clearly tried to cheer up the troops , and succeeded by promising them all a free 10-minute call home at Christmas . |
| 20 | An Occidental spokesman claims that the government has repeatedly tried to cover up the Army 's role for fear of diluting its case against the company and having to admit some federal responsibility for the situation . |
| 21 | They were probably trying to blow up the bridge . |
| 22 | Adding er dining rooms and er sitting rooms for the old folk , and er also trying to break up the wards into s smaller units . |
| 23 | Mr Corden announced his decision to Feethams staff on Wednesday and remaining directors Mr John Brockbank and Mr Richard Tonks are urgently trying to sort out the club 's cash problems . |
| 24 | It is probably churlish to contrast that with those who spent $15 billion last autumn vainly trying to prop up the pound and who remain in post at Threadneedle Street and 11 Downing Street . |
| 25 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 26 | We are now trying to find out the details of this negative feedback system . |
| 27 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 28 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 29 | They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to run the business myself , I have plans for paying off the bills of each creditor in instalments and then trying to build up the business again . |