Example sentences of "[conj] try [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are forbidden to ask any questions or try to discover who the person is . |
| 2 | Unlike the demos you get on ZZAP ! 64 covertapes , PD demos tend to illustrate what the programmer or the host machine can do rather than try to sell you a game . |
| 3 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 4 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 5 | He shifted uncomfortably and tried to give her a reassuring grin . |
| 6 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 7 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 8 | I 'll keep the coffee hot and try to save you a biscuit or two . |
| 9 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 10 | If you find yourself prey to regular bad night terrors , it might be worthwhile talking the problem through with a counsellor , trained in dream analysis , to look at the imagery and try to discover what the messages are for you , what your fears are all about . |
| 11 | Keep the arms straight and try to raise them a little higher with each count . |
| 12 | Rainbow gets the show back on the road , and tries to give herself a little holiday from auntly interventions by searching the radio bands for a local traffic report . |
| 13 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 14 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
| 15 | One important lesson concerns the need to consider the whole child when trying to discover what a child understands or is capable of . |