Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems with humour is you 've got to make an immediate impact sometimes if you try to analyse it into too much detail , it spoils it . |
| 2 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 3 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 4 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 5 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 6 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |