Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 2 | She tried to remember more about last evening . |
| 3 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 4 | However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways . |
| 5 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 6 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 7 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 8 | Preference utilitarianism is right to try to get away from this idea . |
| 9 | The programme did n't work particularly well , it was pretentious and chaotic , and the audience was so noisy you could n't hear the performers or the presenters , but it did try to get away from conventional gender roles as well as subvert the arts programme format . |
| 10 | Power filtration is essential , preferably a combination of internal and external , but avoid setting up a strong current as they will try to shy away from any flow . |
| 11 | ‘ And try to carry on with this truce ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If you try to get home in that state you 'll wind up back in London . |
| 13 | Try to cut down on external noise . |
| 14 | Since its inception the Design Museum has been criticised for the way its exhibits fail to distinguish themselves from department store displays ; to some extent the museum has tried to work analytically with this analogy — its inaugural exhibition , for example , was aimed at exploring the relationships between ‘ commerce and culture ’ . |
| 15 | This usually occurred indirectly , but none the less effectively introducing this information which Parliament had tried to rule out as admissible evidence . |
| 16 | Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ? |
| 17 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 18 | They may have tried to get in at another address without success . |
| 19 | Northern Irish film-maker and writer Niall Leonard , fed up with the humourless stereotyping of his birthplace , has tried to break away from that image . |
| 20 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |
| 21 | The next two days had settled into a daily routine of cleaning weapons and trying to catch up on lost sleep as every night was disturbed by the constant shelling . |
| 22 | But at least I was not trying to stand completely outside this life with my little notebook . |
| 23 | Erm it seems very demoralizing an and not fair to the people who are trying to work hard in this industry . |
| 24 | The rats on the wharf behaved strangely , creeping to the edge of the planking , and trying to cross over from dry land to the boats . |
| 25 | The Britons are trying to keep ahead of Norwegian lawyer Erling Kagge , who hopes to make up for a late start in bad weather . |
| 26 | Mark my words , at this very moment someone is trying to cash in on this supermarket trolley fetish with some useless bit of equipment or other . |
| 27 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 28 | Taking the piss and w he would n't get out the bloody way and I 'm trying to get through with that rack . |
| 29 | Healthy , clean wood can heal — sometimes you may be trying to get ahead of spreading disease as it works its way into a plant , and pruning to discoloured , infected wood or leaving bruised , sawn and anything other than clean cuts only causes more trouble . |
| 30 | We can understand this more clearly if we imagine that the tables have been turned , and that we are trying to get by in basic dolphin-language . |