Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The video will try to help them understand the misery they cause and what they should do to avoid being tempted down that road . |
| 2 | Your ultimate aim is to help the patient back towards normal life , if possible , so you should try to help him keep in touch with friends and acquaintances . |
| 3 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 4 | If you experience difficulty in reaching these standards , your manager will try to help you improve your performance . |
| 5 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 6 | We transfer ‘ I do n't deserve it ’ on to ‘ They do n't deserve it ’ , and may try to make them feel guilty . |
| 7 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | When a horse is shy of any object , and reluctant to approach it , the rider must try to make him feel that there is nothing terrible in it , especially to a horse of spirit ; but if he can not succeed , the rider must himself touch that which appears so alarming , and lead the horse up gently to it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd probably try to make him laugh — that generally helps to defuse an awkward situation . ’ |
| 10 | Clever western diplomacy could try to make him appear less heroic , by keeping the linkage vague , but then — unless he has belatedly realised the hopelessness of his position — he would see no benefit in it . |
| 11 | If I could only see , I 'd try to make you love me again , but … ’ and he sighed deeply . |
| 12 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 13 | He 'll try to make it seem as if the change — the strengthening of their position — comes from within the Ping Tiao . ’ |
| 14 | That is a valid view , but we believe that the internal market is likely to exist for the foreseeable future and that we should try to make it work as well as possible . |