Example sentences of "try [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 2 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 3 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 4 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 5 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 6 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 7 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 8 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 9 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 10 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 11 | You should try to look at the situation objectively and philosophically , and , if you can , keep a sense of humour . |
| 12 | If it becomes bored , a young dog especially may try to gnaw at a seat and cause a lot of damage . |
| 13 | IF YOU want to know the pecking order of the various departments in Britain 's universities , try looking at the shareout of the 312 new academic posts announced by the Department of Education and Science last week . |
| 14 | Therefore try to arrive at the venue a day early . |
| 15 | Even in more casual situations people often try to get at the upshot of what is being said with such utterances as ‘ What are you trying to tell me ? ’ |
| 16 | In the absence of rain , try to water at the rate of 1–2 gallons per sq yd , twice a week . |
| 17 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 18 | He had tried starting at the end and flicking to the beginning . |
| 19 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 20 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 21 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 22 | ‘ We are trying to confirm at the moment a suggestion that the dog had been kept for security purposes . |
| 23 | Even if some of the signs of upturn , of turn around , of better things to come the government are trying to trumpet at the moment . |
| 24 | We used the word " profile " to indicate that we are trying to look at a shape when we are selecting people , choosing a business to take over , assessing a deal , estimating a risk . |
| 25 | Trying to look at the subject rationally , I think it was a difference between theory and practice . |
| 26 | erm Part of the project that we 're on is trying to look at the possibility of tracing timber through from the forest right through to the end user , or at any rate , the sale at the saw-mill , in the same . |
| 27 | So I 'm , I 'm just trying to look at the ones for and then we 'll go from there . |
| 28 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 29 | Erm , we we talked about this sort of issue earlier on , in in relationship to the , to the R A D. Erm , I 'm not quite sure of the strong importance of that organisation to the council , but I am sure that this erm , committee was set up by a number of south west authorities who are trying to look at the future of county farms . |
| 30 | ‘ You are London-born ? ’ he queried , trying to look at the parchment lying on Geoffrey 's desk . |