Example sentences of "[adv] try [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 2 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 3 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 4 | Anne crouched , and gently tried to pull the pillow away . |
| 5 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 6 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 7 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 8 | She encouraged the rich to take holidays within Iran , so tried to foster a sense of Iranian culture and a national pride among a people notoriously liable to succumb to self-pity and paranoia . |
| 9 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 10 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 11 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 12 | Now obviously nobody would be daft enough to try running a car without oil , although some of the garages doing their P D I 's , pre-delivery inspections , can cause that sort of problem . |
| 13 | The Doctrine must be seen for what it was — a very political document which had been hastily cobbled together to try to fill the power vacuum caused by the Suez fiasco . |
| 14 | the police and the parents were trying to work together to try to solve the problem , but the parents accused the police of ignoring any help given to them . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm surprised the Barnet fans have n't got together to try to get the club taken over and I 'm also surprised that Barry Fry is still there . ’ |
| 16 | But they do n't literally try to deform the old physical object into the new one . |
| 17 | Here we shall merely try to summarise the main points that are immediately relevant to the topic of this book . |
| 18 | We can only try to provide an efficient service if we are clear what it is you need and are given sufficient time to do something about it . |
| 19 | " We 'd maybe better try to get a rope on him . " |
| 20 | When Carter a few minutes later in the debate said , ‘ I asked my ( eight-year-old ) daughter Amy last night what she thought … ’ , what the audience heard was : ‘ I 'd better try to find a warm human illustration before it 's too late . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 22 | And if Ingard was going bust , he 'd naturally try to flog the land to anyone he could . |
| 23 | Dental problems are painful and unsightly so try to see a dentist regularly . |
| 24 | So try knitting the last row from the opposite side to your normal way and have another try . |
| 25 | Remember that the vendor may not wish to have you around the house at all , so try to agree a mutually convenient time , starting at , say , 9am or 2pm , which will allow at least three daylight hours for the survey . |
| 26 | Nutritionists believe that the metabolism reaches its peak at 12 noon , so try to eat the majority of your food before mid-afternoon . |
| 27 | For the rest of the day he-would go into Inverness , take his spare clothes into a launderette and then perhaps try to find a public baths with hot showers . |
| 28 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 29 | The Women 's Art Magazine constantly tries to reflect the views and diversity of many women artists and writers , rather than supporting a closed house style , a club mentality or printing articles from just one particular stable of thought and theory . |
| 30 | especially , especially trying to do a bit of |