Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 2 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 6 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 7 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 8 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 9 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 10 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 11 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 12 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 13 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 14 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 15 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 16 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 17 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 18 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 19 | I will try to contact you by telephone , but if I do not manage it , I would be grateful if you could try to ring me on the above number , extension 4425 . |
| 20 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 21 | Here I am admitting that all the clichés of parenthood are so accurate it 's no wonder that the only people who try to express them in the open are Hollywood film makers . |
| 22 | Try to do it on the cheap , however , and you could get lumbered with a lot of high priced product you simply do n't know how to shift . |
| 23 | Try to place them on the same page so you can see they all work together . |
| 24 | A plane cabin tries to fool you with the same set-up , but suddenly it meets turbulence , bumps and jolts , and three hundred of you sit there thinking of the drop beneath . |
| 25 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 26 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 27 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 28 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 29 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 30 | You 're trying to put them in the same leg darling . |