Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 4 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 8 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 9 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way . |
| 14 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 15 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 16 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 17 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 18 | If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method . |
| 19 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 20 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 21 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 22 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
| 23 | What are your priorities when you try to assess someone in that period of time . |
| 24 | Lowell had tried to form her in that woman 's image . |
| 25 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 26 | We have already tried to capture something of this dilemma when we wrote of unskilled workers as follows : |
| 27 | The world number two said : ‘ I 've had a very busy early season , playing in China , Dubai and Belgium , so I 'm just trying to refresh myself before this tournament . |
| 28 | … trying to insinuate oneself at any price into the families of the older European dynasties . |
| 29 | She took personal charge of the cellars and , well aware of the problem posed by the obstinate particles of sediment which refused to fall easily , spent night and day trying to rid herself of this nuisance . |
| 30 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |