Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 2 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 3 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 4 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 5 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 6 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 8 | Trying to look positively at the situation , could I suggest that in future , passengers are advised/warned that they will need separate tickets if there is a possibility of them returning separately . |
| 9 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 10 | And I said he 's gon na do damage if he 's trying to get up at the door |
| 11 | is the people trying to get out at the end , to see who can get out first |
| 12 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |