Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone will be working for free , and all with the same goal , to try to save as much of the island 's wildlife as they can . |
| 2 | It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails . |
| 3 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 4 | Once the baby is born , try to share as much of the care as possible ; he can do everything except breastfeed . |
| 5 | Always try to expose as much of the hook as possible but without risking the boilie parting from the hook during the cast . |
| 6 | The way that they get involved is that they try to back up some of the school teaching in the sixth form chemistry . |
| 7 | Determined to delve deeper into the matter , the DFG , one of the major channels for state funds for research which distributes DM 900 million ( £200 million ) annually for all subjects , has asked some of Germany 's top researchers to review their own areas and try to pin down some of the problems . |
| 8 | In this paper , I have tried to suggest briefly some of the questions posed by the study of religion from a sociological perspective . |
| 9 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 10 | Mr Tree was quizzed by detectives trying to discover how much of the drug she had taken . |
| 11 | We now started playing around with different things like pop-ups and double baits trying to sort out some of the twenties that we knew were present , but had man aged to evade capture . |
| 12 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 13 | ‘ We will be trying to cover as much of the Games as we can and athletics is one of the most popular , ’ said an official . |
| 14 | Although it is vital not to get too high , there is no advantage trying to fly very close to the ground , except perhaps when taking off from a very short field . |
| 15 | I wish I had mine , Masklin thought , trying to keep as many of the strangers as possible in his line of sight . |
| 16 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 17 | Just when banks and pension funds are trying to get more involved in the management of firms they lend to and own , so their opportunity to do so has been narrowed . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said breathlessly , trying to inhale as little of the fetid air as possible . |
| 19 | It opened with a siren and a man trying to follow as much of the government 's advice as he could in the time available . |