Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 4 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 5 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 7 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 8 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 9 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 10 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 11 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 12 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 13 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 14 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 15 | Since h(n) is not known during the search we can try to estimate it in some way . |
| 16 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 17 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 18 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 19 | If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method . |
| 20 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |
| 21 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 22 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |
| 25 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
| 26 | Has some moron tried to strengthen them with yellowing tape ? |
| 27 | Lowell had tried to form her in that woman 's image . |
| 28 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 29 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 30 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |