Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 2 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 3 | Putting out a hand to pick up her brush , intending to try to do something about her limp blonde hair , Laura gave a yelp of dismay as she caught sight of the time on her wrist-watch . |
| 4 | The answer to the first problem is obviously to try to do something about your domestic traffic problems . |
| 5 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 6 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 7 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 8 | Nigel tried to confront her with her little secret that evening . |
| 9 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |
| 10 | I 'm sure it 's previously been reported stolen , so we 'll try to restore it to its rightful owner . |
| 11 | It is also wide open to fraud , because many people who are not entitled to a discount may try to claim one from their local authority . |
| 12 | Urine advertised as free of detectable drugs is on offer by mail-order to anxious test takers , who could try to substitute it for their own . |
| 13 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 14 | May we try to show them by our own example that there is something good in everyone . |
| 15 | I try to thump him with my left , though my hand is a ball of pain . |
| 16 | Looking round at people today and you mi , try to imagine them in their own home setting you know ? |
| 17 | More generally Pazzi 's introduction calls down fire and brimstone on those who damage works of art or try to appropriate them for their own collections . |
| 18 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 19 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 20 | She tries to prise them from my invisible grasp . |
| 21 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 22 | This story will , I hope , be convincing , for it is the way I have tried to tell it to my neuroscientific colleagues , but it will be in one important sense economical with the truth . |
| 23 | Is anybody proud of this estate , except maybe some of the people who live there who 've tried to humanise them with their own gardens ? |
| 24 | She was suffering dreadfully from morning sickness , she was haunted by Camilla Parker-Bowles and she was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new position and new family . |
| 25 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're not still trying to accuse her of something underhand , are you ? ’ |
| 27 | Carlos and Francisco chatted to them for a while , but then Carlos had to patrol his area , which to him meant strolling around , able to approach and compliment all the prettiest girls , and subsequently trying to fit them into his tight evening schedule ! |
| 28 | Jean Alesi is said to be trying to disentangle himself from his 1993 Ferrari contract in order to make himself available to Williams . |
| 29 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 30 | ‘ We 're just trying to do it on our own terms . |