Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 2 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 3 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 4 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 5 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 6 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 7 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 8 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 9 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 10 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 13 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 14 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 15 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 16 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 18 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 19 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 20 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 21 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 22 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 23 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 26 | It is , therefore , appropriate for the liquidator , when he thinks that he may be under a duty to try to recover something from some officer or employee of a company , or some other person who is , in some way , concerned with the company 's affairs , to be able to discover , with as little expense as possible and with as much ease as possible , the facts surrounding any such possible claim . |
| 27 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 28 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 29 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 30 | Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way . |