Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 2 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 3 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 4 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 5 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 6 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 7 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 8 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 9 | As an example of what is meant by ‘ assignment ’ , we might say that a botanist who discovers an unusual plant will try to assign it to a known species ; if this is found impossible , it will be decided that a new species has been discovered , and that future examples of this plant will be assigned to this new species . |
| 10 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 11 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 12 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 13 | Try to do it on the cheap , however , and you could get lumbered with a lot of high priced product you simply do n't know how to shift . |
| 14 | Some , responding to the phallocentrism which Lacanianism retains from traditional psychoanalysis , try to turn it into a gynocentric psychoanalysis . |
| 15 | If it appears healthy , simply let it go , or if it needs attention , try to direct it into a clean dustbin , tie the lid on and take it to the vet . |
| 16 | They are driven to cunning in order to buy the materials they need for their work … they are vain , envious and antagonistic to writers ‘ who are really their best friends , who control the public and try to bring it to a greater state of culture which will offer the artists great subject for their work … |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the rural housing problem , which affects most people in the Third World , is so immense that no government has even tried to tackle it on a national scale . |
| 18 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 19 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 20 | So on would go the self mocking Uncle Basil , punctuating everything with a high pitched giggle that was so appealing I remember deliberately trying to adopt it as a young adult . |
| 21 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 22 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 23 | but I do n't see , I 'm trying to make it like a genetic connection or something I mean or some kind of like you know I mean to me it 's just set up |
| 24 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |