Example sentences of "try [adv] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Try not to fall in love with anybody else before tonight . ’ |
| 5 | On stage a man and a woman try not to fall in love . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |