Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 2 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 4 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 6 | Finally , the staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker , whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections . |
| 7 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 8 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 9 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 10 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 11 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 12 | They stamped their feet and flapped their arms around their bodies to try to keep out the extreme chill . |
| 13 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 14 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 15 | She shook her head , and tried to rub out the impossible visions . |
| 16 | He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints . |
| 17 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 18 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 19 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 20 | The FA tried to stamp out the professional foul , a euphemism for cheating , at the start of the 1982-83 season . |
| 21 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |
| 22 | Belinda tried to bring out the new artist 's term nonchalantly , but he was n't fooled . |
| 23 | However appalled , Ramsay could do nothing more at this stage than try to carry out the original plan . |
| 24 | They go to business school , read management books and consult consultants as they try to work out the correct equation . |
| 25 | In this article I have tried to tease out the underlying assumptions of educational policies concerned with ‘ race ’ and gender . |
| 26 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 27 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 28 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 29 | , writes : MY DAUGHTER is getting married in October and we are trying to find out the proper rules . |
| 30 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |