Example sentences of "try [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 2 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 5 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 6 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 7 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 8 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 9 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 10 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 11 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 12 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 13 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 14 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |
| 15 | They are very difficult to destroy although the enemy may try to attack them with other engines of war , large monsters or magic for example . |
| 16 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 17 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 18 | Try to put them with one of their friends . |
| 19 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 20 | One possibility would be for the analyst to invent a large number of sentences and try saying them with different intonation patterns ( i.e. different combinations of head and tone ) , noting what attitude was supposed to correspond to the intonation in each case ; of course , the results are then very subjective , and based on an artificial performance that has little resemblance to conversational speech . |
| 21 | " Dull for the telephone men , I 'm afraid , " I said , " but try to keep them in good heart . |
| 22 | Barbados ca n't survive on the sugar market alone , but try convincing them of that . |
| 23 | Try practising them against any of the following chords : A maj , B min , C♯min , D(#4) , E7 , F♯m and G♯m7♭5 . |
| 24 | Mr Aznar has tried to combat them by promising ‘ rational change ’ , pledging to keep , for example , Spain 's restrictive abortion law . |
| 25 | Has some moron tried to strengthen them with yellowing tape ? |
| 26 | Bill Clinton ( who has thought these things through ) might have tried to persuade them of this . |
| 27 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 28 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 29 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 30 | This whole issue about er children , junior church , other activities , children being compromised , adults finding it difficult to insist or persuade their children , that they should be in junior church , when other folks are trying to tempt them in other directions . |