Example sentences of "try [to-vb] out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 2 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 3 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 4 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 5 | The people of the Baltic states will be baffled at the petty party points that Conservative Members have tried to make out of the great victory that was achieved by those people . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not trying to get out of a short-term financial embarrassment , which gives us flexibility . |
| 7 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 8 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |