Example sentences of "try [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps . |
| 2 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 3 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 4 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 5 | The question was whether to settle for a return to the status quo , or to try to unite the two Koreas and achieve a victory over the communists . |
| 6 | They are brought by La Befana — a witch who tried to follow the Three Kings to see Jesus . |
| 7 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 8 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 9 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 10 | Of course , no consultants are members of organisations such as NUPE and COHSE , so the hon. Gentleman should not try to run the two things together . |
| 11 | Try replacing the one way valves in the fuel lift pump . |
| 12 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 13 | I shall also describe some of the remarkable things that seem to happen when one tries to combine the two theories . |
| 14 | From this office a staff of 750 tries to control the 40,200 branches of Russia 's Savings Bank , or Sberbank . |
| 15 | The firm had also been asked by the Bank to make a s 41 report and was trying to finalise the 1990 accounts , which had been delayed by the lack of access to ICIC . |
| 16 | No press release was made and I experienced extraordinary difficulties in trying to obtain the 1985 échelle des crus , Quite why this historic event was clothed in such secrecy is a mystery . |
| 17 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 18 | But until it does , constant confusion arises from trying to combine the two approaches . |
| 19 | Henry is trying to trace the two men with whom he has struck up an acquaintance : |
| 20 | Trying to keep the two sides apart . |
| 21 | Harper 's next test will be a 12hour race at Darlington on March 29 , when he will be trying to break the 55–59 category outdoor 50 miles record of 6 hours 46 secs . |
| 22 | So , no you wo n't know that we 're trying to get the two pilots out of er |
| 23 | So we 're trying to unite the two things together . |
| 24 | I waded over it , trying to drag the four hundredweight on its side , and when all else failed , I beat it with my fist , kicked and cursed and pleaded with it to try harder . |
| 25 | The Russians are certainly trying to bring the two sides together for talks and end the fighting , but , so far , they are finding it a hard row . |