Example sentences of "[adv] try [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry , George , I 'm not about to sally forth on my old hobby-horse , not for long anyway , just long enough to try to explain what the greatest number means in the term the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 2 | While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low . |
| 3 | ‘ While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low . |
| 4 | Erm we 've covered it I 've done it before I 'm just trying to remember what the answer was . |
| 5 | Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was . |
| 6 | odd fifty P here , and pound here and I always try to give them a little bit . |
| 7 | I always try to make myself a little nervous , so that I can perform . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Hinkle was always trying to make me an office magnate , dictating letters and answering telephone calls . |
| 9 | If you go to buy a secondhand car these days they invariably try to sell you a guarantee or a warranty on it . |
| 10 | Please , Tom when er placing photographs in Direct , please try to make them a little more appropriate . |
| 11 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 12 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 13 | They knew we did n't get on , and they never tried to get us a flat or nowt , so when I got out of prison with him I was just on my own . |