Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 2 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 3 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 4 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 5 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 6 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 7 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 8 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 9 | Tried to get us to stey up fur a slow wan . |
| 10 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 11 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 12 | We can explain , correctly or incorrectly , our would-be beliefs on looking at things by reference to presentation appearances , but to try to explain them by reference to perceived-as appearances is to try to explain them by reference to themselves . |
| 13 | In Chapter 5 we saw how natural philosophers , such as Boyle , tried to defend themselves against charges of encouraging materialistic atheism by suggesting that , since the natural world is God 's creation , the study of it leads towards , not away from , things spiritual . |
| 14 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 15 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 16 | ‘ I was always meant to lose her , ’ she had sobbed to Arthur , who tried to comfort her with cups of tea and brief , common-sense reassurances . |
| 17 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 18 | When moderate areas , principally Nottinghamshire , failed to comply , Yorkshire miners tried to bring them into line by picketing their pits . |
| 19 | Since France did not receive any substantial support for this scheme it did not try to propose it on behalf of the EEC . |
| 20 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 21 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 22 | Below : When shooting cichlids they show their colours best when not stressed so try to shoot them at home in their shelters . |
| 23 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 24 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
| 25 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 26 | I try to present them as ribbons of metal because that creates the illusion of movement and I can put them in an off balance position . |
| 27 | These classifications , then , give us a wealth of empirical data , but the result is conceptual confusion and general inconclusiveness when we try to explain anything in terms of such state-centred categories . |
| 28 | Try to spend plenty of time with other people , especially people outside your immediate family . |
| 29 | Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms . |
| 30 | I am very sympathetic to it , and have tried to put it into effect in some of my own writing , but there is an accompanying danger that literature becomes absorbed by culture , and that literary values are superseded by cultural ones . |