Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainteny tried to persuade them to accept French fighters in their advance , but he was given a brush-off . |
| 2 | ‘ They tried to force me to sign that document … ’ |
| 3 | Robyn stared out and tried to control her trembling bottom lip . |
| 4 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 5 | Hari 's hands were suddenly still , the leather clinging to the last , while she tried to envisage herself wearing fine crinolines and rich jewels , it was like something out of a dream . |
| 6 | The chow-chow sank his teeth into Ravi Bhatiasevi 's arm when he tried to stop him fighting another dog . |
| 7 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 8 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 9 | You could also try to persuade them to use recycled stationery . |
| 10 | Try to discipline yourself to work contracted hours only . |
| 11 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 12 | ( I have often tried to analyse what makes this statement so amusing , and I have come to the conclusion that it is due to the words ‘ all ’ and ‘ large ’ , so that the idea becomes a preposterous one . ) |
| 13 | They have tried to stop us having all-male bars where we can drink in peace . |
| 14 | Realising that his son had little chance of success in Munich Leopold began trying to encourage him to lay other plans and Nannerl joined in the plea saying : |
| 15 | Just trying to remember you ken that professor , he came twice here , |
| 16 | Leora personified the courage : I remember her trying to calm her screaming autistic son , taking him in her arms , rocking him , comforting him , until at last he became tranquil and quiet and she was left with his violence in her . |
| 17 | What the analyst would say to you in trying to help you to resolve this dream would be , well , report what you think of in connection with the manifest content . |
| 18 | It is a question of trying to get them to learn each other 's good qualities and to recognise their own bad qualities . |
| 19 | I 'm trying , trying to say they need some people to listen to that and you know , to get the new words if that is the case . |
| 20 | But that is no reason for trying to make them contradict each other . |
| 21 | Is n't he trying to make him feel guilty Manhom and this woman ? |
| 22 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose I was trying to make you seem more human . |