Example sentences of "try [verb] them [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |