Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 2 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 4 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 5 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 6 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 7 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 8 | ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
| 10 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |