Example sentences of "try [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 2 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 3 | Hard tried not to giggle with triumph , Elizabeth leaned tremulously on Bridhe 's shoulder , and let the old lady comfort her . |
| 4 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 5 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 6 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 7 | ‘ Try not to go to sleep yet , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 8 | I try not to drink at lunchtime . " |
| 9 | We are not even likely to put up with our politicians ' abdication of monetary responsibility for long , though it is another subject they try not to mention in front of us . |
| 10 | ‘ Try not to fall in love with anybody else before tonight . ’ |
| 11 | On stage a man and a woman try not to fall in love . |
| 12 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 13 | ‘ If you try seriously to put into effect what the Congress agreed , ’ said Mr Gaidar , ‘ you must understand that this is the road to the collapse of the financial system . ’ |
| 14 | Having tried unsuccessfully to negotiate by telephone a compromise truce with Mola and other rebel commanders , he in turn resigned and was replaced by Azaña 's friend José Giral . |
| 15 | I I 'm trying not to think about way I feel on Christmas morning cos |
| 16 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 17 | Over and behind , in a different line , Ramu 's head was feathered with electric-blue that he was trying unsuccessfully to tame into urbanity . |
| 18 | The false , fixed smiles of the salesmen on the machinery avenues and the grey-suited men on bankers ' row at the Royal Welsh Show contrasted sharply with the frowns of recession-hit livestock producers trying hard to stay in business . |