Example sentences of "[adv] try [verb] [art] [noun] " 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 | Anne crouched , and gently tried to pull the pillow away . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | " We 'd maybe better try to get a rope on him . " |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | And if Ingard was going bust , he 'd naturally try to flog the land to anyone he could . |
| 14 | Dental problems are painful and unsightly so try to see a dentist regularly . |
| 15 | Nutritionists believe that the metabolism reaches its peak at 12 noon , so try to eat the majority of your food before mid-afternoon . |
| 16 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | especially , especially trying to do a bit of |
| 19 | I am not merely trying to preserve the tradition of my country . |
| 20 | But Mr Rychetsky argues that the Liberal Club is merely trying to safeguard the reforms by winning popular support for them . |
| 21 | I , I do n't think we 're taking away the Planning and Environment Committee 's delegated powers , we 're merely trying to ensure the policy and resources committee is consulted on proposals for conversion of residential accommodation , for the , oh I will say the moral reasons that Mr outlined , I would n't really disagree with what he said . |
| 22 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 23 | I 'm only trying to sell the time then ! |
| 24 | I am sorry , I am only trying to answer the question . |
| 25 | He felt Simon was only trying to prolong the visit . |
| 26 | Cranog Jones says he was only trying to de-tune the engine . |
| 27 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 28 | But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live . |
| 29 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 30 | We are literally only trying to get the appointments so that we can |