Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 2 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 3 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 5 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 7 | Finally , the staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker , whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections . |
| 8 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 9 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 10 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 11 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 12 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 14 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 15 | They stamped their feet and flapped their arms around their bodies to try to keep out the extreme chill . |
| 16 | Sitting behind the wheel of the Lagonda , he tried to understand why the old man had discouraged him . |
| 17 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 18 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 19 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 20 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 21 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 22 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 23 | To study one sub-system in detail without regard to interactions with the others is usually inadequate , but on the other hand , to try to examine simultaneously the whole complex of sub-systems is to invite disorientation . |
| 24 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 25 | Another request was made by the NVALA that Thorsen should not be admitted to the country , and he was indeed excluded ‘ on the grounds that [ his ] exclusion [ was ] conducive to the public good ’ , when he tried to enter early the following year . |
| 26 | The FA tried to stamp out the professional foul , a euphemism for cheating , at the start of the 1982-83 season . |
| 27 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |
| 28 | Belinda tried to bring out the new artist 's term nonchalantly , but he was n't fooled . |
| 29 | In this concluding section I shall try to pull together the preceding discussions of the theory , practice , and policy relating to tacit collusion . |
| 30 | To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage . |