Example sentences of "try [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 2 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 3 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 4 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 5 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 6 | It seems important , therefore , to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about . |
| 7 | It was alleged that Moin tried to scuff up the pitch — but England officials said yesterday that they would not study the video . |
| 8 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 9 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 10 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 11 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 12 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 13 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 14 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 15 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 16 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 17 | At the age of 67 , he probably felt it was too late to try to pick up the pieces . |
| 18 | She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy . |
| 19 | Just as he had had the nerve to try to pick up the casting director at his first audition , so he had the taste and — in sociological terms — the cheek to seek out the stylish and lovely Nina Bawden , later the novelist . |
| 20 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 21 | Sir Colin flies back to England later this week to try to sort out the storm over the Pakistanis . |
| 22 | If centre staff have any problems , they can telephone the section ; staff will be happy to try to sort out the problems . |
| 23 | There is evidence of criminality and psychotic behaviour in some hyper-kinetics when they reach adulthood , so it is advisable to try to sort out the problem sooner rather than later . |
| 24 | Almost invariably , I ended up each year in front of the Star Chamber of ministers who were set up under the chairmanship of Willie Whitelaw to try to sort out the differences which remained between ministers and the Chief Secretary . |
| 25 | In general there was concern to protect the security of their own providers in the first year , to try to sort out the information base for contracting and setting up appropriate systems . |
| 26 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 27 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 28 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 29 | To revert to an old style would be to try to set back the clock and deny the progress which had been made and made under divine providence . |
| 30 | A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence . |