Example sentences of "[pron] hand at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't know how I value my freedom , Donald , the freedom to do what I like and take advantage of the opportunity to explore a new city , learn a new language , try my hand at a way of life I did n't know existed . |
| 2 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't need one , ’ Theda returned , brushing the back of her hand at a lock of hair which was blowing across her face . |
| 4 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 5 | I agree with Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer that : ‘ Like all of education , physical education should provide opportunities for students to try their hand at a variety of activities as sources of possible self-realization . |
| 6 | The estate 's extensive grounds offer excellent opportunities for many pleasant walks and include a small lake where guests are permitted to try their hand at a little fishing . |
| 7 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 8 | When the plant closed , and after trying his hand at a few other jobs , he finally settled at . |
| 9 | ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said . |
| 10 | And — just for ten minutes , ten or fifteen minutes , and the others stay with me , and we 'll just try our hands at a couple of |