Example sentences of "[coord] try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 2 | We must learn to see our anxiety symptoms as signals that we are under stress and learn to cope with and control these signals through our efforts and not simply mask or try to ignore them with tranquillizers . |
| 3 | You will probably find that much of what they offer is excellent , but that something is missing ; certain aspects of movement are neglected — it is thought necessary to know about them or try to communicate them through teaching . |
| 4 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 5 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 6 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 7 | She knew all about it in theory and tried to explain it to Enoch . |
| 8 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't you go outside and try to talk it to death ? ’ |
| 10 | At last , in a fit of anger , he gave John permission to invade the duchy and try to take it by force . |
| 11 | They will work on the weakest MPs , and try to force them into line . |
| 12 | ‘ They will work on the weakest , and try to force them into line . ’ |
| 13 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 14 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 15 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 16 | Somehow you have to play devil 's advocate against your presentation and try to knock it to pieces . |
| 17 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 18 | So he puts it on the table and tries to squash it into shape , and by the time he 's got his mouth full of that he ca n't make a sound . |
| 19 | Cover-up — a card is placed in the tray , the child studies the word beneath it then covers it and tries to spell it from memory , using the cubes . |
| 20 | Mr Morrison and his group can play their part by learning for themselves the full complexity of the problem and trying to convey it to Irish-Americans who see Irish unity as the only answer . |
| 21 | Do something before it goes ! ’ she cried , catching his arm and trying to shake him into action . |
| 22 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 23 | We shall just introduce them now , but try to bear them in mind as you read on . |