Example sentences of "try [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
2 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
3 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
4 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
5 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
6 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
7 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
8 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
9 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
10 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
11 | Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way . |
12 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
13 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
14 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
15 | If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method . |
16 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
17 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
18 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
19 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
20 | Lowell had tried to form her in that woman 's image . |
21 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
22 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
23 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
24 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
25 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
26 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |