Example sentences of "try [to-vb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 2 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 3 | It tried to hide itself . |
| 4 | Athenix Corporation , the start-up X terminals company , has hit a brick wall , forcing it to try to sell itself off or auction its supposedly breakthrough Multi-X technology . |
| 5 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 6 | It landed on the floor where it lay on its back , its numerous legs doing cycling motions as it tried to right itself . |
| 7 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 8 | IF AN ANIMAL is approached by a killer it may try to defend itself by giving its attacker a fright . |
| 9 | If the book wins , it will control the character and try to deliver itself to a powerful follower of Slaanesh . |
| 10 | Pneumonia during the prepatent phase may cause signs of dyspnoea and depression , whereas the presence of adult worms and excess mucus in the trachea lead to signs of asphyxia or suffocation with the bird gasping for air ; often there is a great deal of head shaking and coughing as it tries to rid itself of the obstruction . |
| 11 | Paul Smith and Jasper Conran are both completely disillusioned with the hollow slap on the back British fashion tries to give itself every year . |
| 12 | The book 's first Russian readers seem not to have taken up its principal insight , that the most dangerous moment for an authoritarian government arrives when it tries to reform itself . |
| 13 | Strategic partnerships with software companies are the order of the day at Compaq Computer Corp as it tries to transform itself into a much more broadly-based systems manufacturer , and according to Computerworld , the latest is with Oracle Corp . |
| 14 | Shops have been packed with customers hunting bargains at some of the keenest prices for years , as the retail trade tries to kick itself out of recession . |
| 15 | History had tried to repeat itself , she realised bitterly ; she 'd allowed a man to sweep her off her feet with honeyed words — just as her mother had before her . |
| 16 | are that this is transmitted throughout the world within minutes of being spoken so you have the monarchy which has tried to make itself populist , has actually made its language much more populist . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room ’ , thinks Frodo , and he is clearly right . |
| 18 | Trying to uproot itself into each escaping screech , |
| 19 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 20 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 21 | LM That will happen in any small country trying to establish itself or struggling to survive . |
| 22 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 23 | It is trying to assert itself politically , offering money the PLO can not match to young , educated Gazans to join the Islamist movement . |
| 24 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 25 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 26 | Climbing up a steep bank or trying to extricate itself from a mud hole is likely to produce squeals of distress from the infant and the adults nearby will rush over to see what is wrong . |
| 27 | As a user tip , it is worth doing this manipulation off the page otherwise the text is continually trying to re-format itself . |
| 28 | In the ensuing election campaign foreign affairs were unusually prominent , with Labour trying to project itself as a better defender of the peace than the Tories . |
| 29 | Any such declaration of independence would be a blow to the ISE 's reputation , at a time when the exchange is trying to reform itself . |
| 30 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |