Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] we try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 2 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 3 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 4 | Clearly if we tried to apply a legal definition of ownership the asset belongs to Fred , however , unless the business is set up as a company in most countries the law does not recognize the separation of the business assets from those of the owner . |
| 5 | We had to calm her and untie my father , laying him down tenderly while we tried to extricate the mule . |
| 6 | That all thinking is grounded in analogization shows up especially clearly when we try to come to grips with the thought of another civilization . |
| 7 | We have to feel no one else is as good as us and we usually put others down to make ourselves seem on top , even if we try to make positive comments such as ‘ Your garden is looking nice . |
| 8 | ‘ Even though we try to tell this to our customers , some of them will pay £3,300 for a Broaster and then buy cheap oil . |
| 9 | As we shall see in section 5.2 , this is only one of several curious features we come across when we try to think of the discount market in conventional terms . |