Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way that they get involved is that they try to back up some of the school teaching in the sixth form chemistry . |
| 2 | Determined to delve deeper into the matter , the DFG , one of the major channels for state funds for research which distributes DM 900 million ( £200 million ) annually for all subjects , has asked some of Germany 's top researchers to review their own areas and try to pin down some of the problems . |
| 3 | We now started playing around with different things like pop-ups and double baits trying to sort out some of the twenties that we knew were present , but had man aged to evade capture . |
| 4 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 5 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |