Example sentences of "try [verb] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 2 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 3 | May we try to show them by our own example that there is something good in everyone . |
| 4 | Looking round at people today and you mi , try to imagine them in their own home setting you know ? |
| 5 | More generally Pazzi 's introduction calls down fire and brimstone on those who damage works of art or try to appropriate them for their own collections . |
| 6 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 7 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 8 | She tries to prise them from my invisible grasp . |
| 9 | Is anybody proud of this estate , except maybe some of the people who live there who 've tried to humanise them with their own gardens ? |
| 10 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 11 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |