Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has one of the largest black populations in the Western world , yet magazines seem to try to appeal only to the white mainstream . |
| 2 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 3 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 4 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 5 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 6 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 7 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 8 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 9 | Rather he asserted and tried to use effectively in the 1760s and 1770s powers which he undoubtedly possessed in theory but which under his predecessors had begun to be whittled away in practice . |
| 10 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 11 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 12 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 13 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 14 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 15 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 16 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 17 | Mark : I certainly identify with the attitude of a contradiction between my one-to-one relationships and the image of what should happen to try to get away from the heterosexual attitude to relationships . |
| 18 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 19 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 20 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 21 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
| 22 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 23 | Along with all these grooves I 've written some accompanying drum machine patterns , but do try to get together with a real drummer or , better still , a number of different drummers . |
| 24 | I did n't consciously try to get close to the original sound , but I think my style has always been fairly close to Eric 's anyway , plus I generally use a Strat in the studio . |
| 25 | The form can be made more flexible in English , ( the translator of Bashó0 has bent the rules considerably ) because it does not possess the same internal formal necessity as it would in Japanese , but try to stick roughly to the proposed number of syllables . |
| 26 | In clinical practice we try to keep up with the scientific literature and adapt our actions accordingly . |
| 27 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 28 | Try to get off on the right foot ? ’ |
| 29 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 30 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |