Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] hard [pers pn] try " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody else , no matter how hard they try , can force you to do anything . |
| 2 | Northampton wo n't be able to help themselves , they will feel complacent no matter how hard they try not to be . |
| 3 | Both are held to economic ransom by a system that ensures they can never free themselves of debt — no matter how hard they try . |
| 4 | No matter how hard they try , things are n't going their way and on Saturday it was Swansea 's turn to take advantage . |
| 5 | The historian N.N. Brailsford , echoing German opinion , called the Poles a primitive unschooled race and went on to say that no matter how hard they tried , the Allied politicians would never manage to replace the industrial and intellectual skills of the German workforce with the likes of the Poles . |
| 6 | Children are subjected every day to newspaper and television news bulletins revealing the brutality and ugliness of the world and no matter how hard we try we could never successfully protect our young from the harsh reality of our violent world . |
| 7 | We will never catch up with this galaxy , no matter how hard we try . |
| 8 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 9 | Laidlaw 's hand was on his P220 automatic but he knew he could n't fire it , no matter how hard he tried . |
| 10 | No matter how hard she tries to give up , she still admits to smoking the occasional cigarette . |
| 11 | The world , thought Wilson that night , was crumbling around her no matter how hard she tried . |
| 12 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 13 | Beside him , Melanie was acutely conscious of her clumsy hands and the long legs she could not arrange elegantly , no matter how hard she tried . |
| 14 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 15 | She possessed a vivid imagination , but somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could not envisage herself ever calling this man Alexander . |
| 16 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 17 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 18 | No matter how hard I tried to steel myself , you just became more and more persuasive . |
| 19 | No matter how hard you try , they always beat you to the huts . |
| 20 | ‘ No matter how hard you try for acceptance , you will always be an outsider , ’ says a disillusioned Englishman employed by a Japanese stockbroking firm . |
| 21 | No matter how hard you try , you just ca n't seem to get comfortable . |
| 22 | There are just some things that do n't compliment each other , no matter how hard you try , and this is very trying . |
| 23 | Having said that you need not buy large quantities of any one flower , do remember that you are bound to have a certain percentage of failures in your press , no matter how hard you try . |
| 24 | He just ca n't hit the target however hard he tries . |