Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking is a capacity to refer at will , whose nature is made more mysterious if we try to chop it up into mental episodes with particular epistemic content or causal power . |
| 2 | Someone spills the maple syrup , and tries to mop it up with another table 's tablecloth . |
| 3 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 4 | Aye , I 'm trying to put it back on this rail . |
| 5 | Maxted sighed , and began to gather up his work from the floor , trying to put it back in some kind of sequence . |
| 6 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 7 | Now as soon as you 've got a minus X and you 're trying to take it over to one side , and you 're trying to bring the other one over , there 's a good chance that something 's going |