Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [to-vb] this " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I tried to meet this personal and pastoral need in a four-page leaflet with printed prayers for the occasions mentioned above . |
| 9 | At a Press Conference at the Central Office I tried to express this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 12 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 13 | Erm , I tried to ring this lady . |
| 14 | I tried to prevent this , but I was thrown onto the ground and fell onto a sickle . |
| 15 | I tried to work this out in terms of ‘ Der Freischütz ’ but failed . |
| 16 | But how did I try to get this influence over working men ? |
| 17 | Using all the tact I can muster , I try to explain this . |
| 18 | I have been extremely interested in the youth of Shropshire for many years and I try to express this by such activities as being a confirmation catechist , working with young adults with physical and mental disabilities and also attending a week 's work experience at Dehon House . |
| 19 | We wish to know only who paid you to try to kill this gentleman . ’ |
| 20 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 21 | She tried to relate this sudden vision of the things of the pieties of the Dodson sisters to Daniel 's Mum 's instructions about how to cook Christmas pudding , and largely failed . |
| 22 | Come on no where you going , trying to stand up , no do n't you try to pull this off , trying to make this one come undone wow , oh yes teddy , dad |
| 23 | ‘ And you , Rober' , how hard do you try to find this ship ? |
| 24 | You try to block this out do n't you . |
| 25 | But but , you should also be be sure that the form tutor pro can clarify things for parents because although , no no matter how hard you try to make this erm , a clear and easily understandable document it 's only clear and un easily understandable to us . |
| 26 | Why was she trying to protect this creature ? |
| 27 | How are you trying to calculate this ? |
| 28 | ‘ Are you trying to make this even more intolerable for me than it already is ? ’ |
| 29 | We tried to do this in Hills ( 1990 ) . |
| 30 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |