Example sentences of "[adv] try [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | And if Ingard was going bust , he 'd naturally try to flog the land to anyone he could . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you could just try observing the commandments , for a start . |
| 4 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 5 | But nor do I think that you should somehow try to cosset the position of the leader of the party . |
| 6 | While any one of these groups can individually try to alter the design of a building , each can only achieve a little on their own . |
| 7 | Do not try to pre-empt the situation by going to the media . |
| 8 | Even if the adults do not try to talk the child out of it , they may not persist with their request . |
| 9 | But the new Headmaster did not try to turn the School into a Technical School with a full science curriculum . |
| 10 | If you find it a little slow working in so many cables , why not try using the pattern in parts of a garment ? |
| 11 | But I do not try to re-read the text to make it more acceptable ; I dissociate myself from Shakespeare 's outlook . |
| 12 | One would not try to explain the flight of birds at the molecular level , whereas that level is most appropriate if we wish to understand how muscles contract . |
| 13 | We feel that it is much better to recognize clearly that some roles should be the teacher 's province and that the program designer should not try to employ the program in such roles . |
| 14 | God did not give the job , he could not , and he did not try to give the job to anybody else ! |
| 15 | I would not try to guide the nation 's choice . |
| 16 | When the war was lost , even the hotheads did not try to sabotage the peace . |
| 17 | There is a great gulf between ‘ popular culture ’ ( excuse me if I do not try to define the term ) and contemporary art . |
| 18 | Provided the counties , or other entrepreneurs , do not try to fill the gaps with spurious additional games — a serious danger which must be avoided — they should be better prepared to play good cricket on pitches , moreover , which should also be better prepared . |
| 19 | If we do not try to grasp the relations between popular music discourses and the material musical practices to which they refer , and at the same time the necessary distinctness of level between these , we are unlikely to break through the structures of power which , as Foucault makes clear , discursive authority erects . |
| 20 | Why not try to close the gap from the top down ? |
| 21 | He did not try to dissuade the party from their ascent , but he did insist on loaning Miss Fergusson a pistol . |
| 22 | Michael is pleased the programme will show that a family with a handicapped member can have a rewarding holiday — and equally glad that it does not try to disguise the difficulties . |
| 23 | With BM YOU do not try to unravel the typist 's feelings or motivations . |
| 24 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman did not try to pull the wool over the association 's eyes , as he usually does . |
| 25 | If there are wrinkles or silvery air bubbles at this stage , do not try to remove the film , as a very messy , sticky surface will be left . |
| 26 | According to the narrow and uncontroversial version of the doctrine ( to which most other democratic countries , including the Netherlands , subscribe ) it simply requires that governments should not try to influence the decision of the courts in an individual case . |
| 27 | He said they should not try to camouflage the block vote — ‘ we should not try to paint a smile on the face of the monster ’ . |
| 28 | Robert did not try to contest the authenticity of either of these adjectives . |
| 29 | I wonder did Brownlow ever try driving the ball across Lurgan Lake as Daly would do … when the lake was ice-bound , of course ! |
| 30 | Companies can always try selling the securities they hold , and are doing so : they were net sellers of more than ¥1.2 trillion of Japanese shares in the first quarter of this year . |