Example sentences of "try [verb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be impracticable and unrealistic in segmentation terms for a company to try to incorporate into one product all the benefits and costs sought by all potential customers . |
| 2 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 3 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 4 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 5 | Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write . |
| 6 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 7 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 8 | And , just as it is unnatural to spend all one 's time hopping on one leg , going about with one eye permanently closed or trying to work with one hand tied behind the back , it is unnatural to be so unbalanced . |
| 9 | He is trying to sell off four building plots on his estate for up to £40,000 each to raise cash for an endowment fund . |
| 10 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 11 | I watched a girl in front of me trying to hop from one patch to another so as to avoid ducking the two strips of leather somebody had sold her as shoes . |
| 12 | Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . |
| 13 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
| 14 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |