Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [noun] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountbatten tried to tempt Bogyoke with the post of Deputy Inspector-General and the British rank of Brigadier : he was too shrewd to be side-tracked in that way . |
| 2 | I do nt know much about the second half , except that Hodges tried to maim dorigo with an elbow , and should have been sent off . |
| 3 | George Graham was amazed , too , after seeing another high-octane Arsenal performance lack only the finishing touch against a weakened Coventry side who manfully tried to keep pace with the champions . |
| 4 | Before expressing a qualified opinion an auditor should always try to resolve problems with the management of the organization concerned . |
| 5 | In the meantime , we 'll try to make contact with the Williamsons . |
| 6 | Any minority government which tries to play games with the constitution in order to cling to power , promoting instability and dodging the moral challenge of democracy , will have to contend with us . |
| 7 | This is Dr G 's dilemma : that although he tries to inculcate students with a sense of the beauty and joy of the subject , and to stimulate their minds , they often refuse to think , or to be critical and regard physics in an entirely instrumental way , as a degree to be gained , which will enable them to do something ‘ useful ’ , namely defence research . |
| 8 | John Hay , seeing Johnson 's fear , talked to him all the time as to a child , trying to keep him cheerful , but this measure only excited Boswell 's scorn , especially when he heard Hay trying to distract Johnson with the antics of the local goats . |
| 9 | Mr Mukhametshin claims he could finance the whole lot from cash flow and is trying to tempt investors with the promise of juicy returns : the forecast return on capital on his ice-cream factory ranges from 360% to almost 850% , depending on what sort of ice-cream it produces . |
| 10 | The Communist leaders were desperately trying to establish contacts with the rest of the labour movement , despite their continued adherence to the " social fascist " line . |
| 11 | As the climate of controversy became sharper at the end of the 1780s reformers countered these varieties of the national interest argument both by emphasising the potential for the country in alternative patterns of commerce and production and , more defensively , by trying to reconcile abolition with the nation 's interest in security and order . |
| 12 | By 1989 , in the so-called Summer plan , the Sarney government was still trying to control prices with a promise that inflation would be kept to 28 per cent/month . |
| 13 | Selling generic discs , therefore , often means trying to bundle hardware with the discs . |
| 14 | The delay was the result of our trying to get help with the study costs from various potential funding partners . |
| 15 | Beneath it were a photograph of a beaming Ruby Dobby and a few hundred words about her having a psychic revelation that Sniffy Wilson was near London and trying to make contact with a friend . |
| 16 | so before you start trying to make contact with the press , try to figure out what is engaging or unusual about you . |
| 17 | Alright , I 'm trying to make contact with the forces now , standby . |
| 18 | I saw the airmen of the watch come out and gather it up , and all the time I was trying to make contact with the control tower . |