Example sentences of "try [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 2 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 3 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 4 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 5 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 6 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 7 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 8 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 9 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 10 | Or where do I — can I write down an address on a piece of paper and I will try to mail them from the hotel . |
| 11 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 12 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 13 | If there are any problems with these procedures , please try to resolve them in the Region/Country , otherwise , contact me and we will try to reach a solution . |
| 14 | Larger seedlings will block out the light from smaller ones , so try to keep them in a row at the back . |
| 15 | Take the cards in turn and try to think them into the matter for negotiation . |
| 16 | If you try to push them under a place to see if it 's touching , you 'll find they get bent up and once there 's a bend in you ca n't smooth it . |
| 17 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 18 | ‘ One needs to be very alert to go creeping round with a couple of bottles up one 's sleeve , trying to hide them in the coal-scuttle or under the sink . ’ |
| 19 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 20 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 21 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |
| 22 | The pace certainly quickened — too much so for some fathers who believed the conservative minority was trying to hurry them towards a close , leaving some business unfinished . |
| 23 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |
| 24 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 25 | But they were then held in remand in prison , and did n't really know how to defend themselves , so this project will be sending lawyers into the Long Houses of the indigenous peoples , trying to educate them about the process of Malaysian law , and work it into their system of customary law , which is known as ADAT , whereby within the Long House , all the community leaders and the members within the community debate disputes over land rights , the forest , the use of it , and try and get them to use their customary law with a knowledge of the Malaysian legal process in order to form associations and fight being thrown into prison because they 're trying to defend the forest . |
| 26 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |
| 27 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |