Example sentences of "[pron] try [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 2 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 3 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 4 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 5 | I tried to watch that but it was n't very interesting . |
| 6 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 7 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 8 | I tried to explain that to the Sister . |
| 9 | I tried to ignore both discomforts , but I was n't happy . |
| 10 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 11 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 13 | Joan Warren and I tried to label each member as she came in , and the visitors ' book was passed round , but we inevitably missed people , so a head-count was impossible . |
| 14 | Originally I tried to label each unwanted artifact and thought and send them off again through stage left . |
| 15 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 16 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 17 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
| 18 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 19 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
| 20 | I tried to recapitulate all the rude names James had ever called the Management . |
| 21 | I tried to meet this personal and pastoral need in a four-page leaflet with printed prayers for the occasions mentioned above . |
| 22 | I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child . |
| 23 | I recall the situation all the more clearly because , when I tried to market those rabbits , the dealer thought there was something wrong with them . |
| 24 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 25 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 26 | At a Press Conference at the Central Office I tried to express this . |
| 27 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 28 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 29 | And she said , I tried to get that father- in-law there , she says , and I tried to get that for my daughter and I could n't find , could n't get it . |
| 30 | And she said , I tried to get that father- in-law there , she says , and I tried to get that for my daughter and I could n't find , could n't get it . |