Example sentences of "try [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time to try my hand at the settled life . |
| 2 | It gave me an appetite for working over there , so after Nick and I split up I decided to try my hand across the Pond . |
| 3 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 4 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 5 | Sideshows did a roaring trade with queues waiting to try their luck on the rifle range , hoop-la , hubbly bubbly or coconut shies . |
| 6 | While Dennis and Millie and the first four of their children , Jean , Carol , Suzette and Noel , had headed for the prosperous southern city of Melbourne , Dennis and Joan Riddiford decided to try their luck in the tougher climate of Cairns , in northern Queensland . |
| 7 | They include a party of German businessmen , keen to try their hand at the traditional Highland Games sports of shot-putting and caber-tossing , and a group of Australians . |
| 8 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 9 | Drawn just past the dolomite length , the Cleveland Angling Centre-sponsored star decided to try his luck on the waggler and with little wind to hinder presentation , the gamble paid off . |
| 10 | Despite pleas from his mother , Jackie was next to try his hand at the sport . |
| 11 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 12 | Later during the first journey , comedian Jimmy Edwards tried his hand at the controls . |
| 13 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |
| 14 | Guinness tried his hand at the new Porter with rather more success than his fellow Dublin brewers . |
| 15 | A chance to try your hand at the ancient art of Drystone Walling . |
| 16 | Without a pub to be seen for miles we decided to try our luck in the bar of the hilton . |
| 17 | The investigator said he would try his luck with the scenery-watchers in the dome-car , with apparently the same result , and from there he presumably went in to see the Lorrimores , who apart from Xanthe were still in seclusion . |
| 18 | Another night like the last , with Isabel in his arms , would try his control to the limits . |
| 19 | At Kunstat we visit a ceramics factory , where you can try your hand at the potter 's wheel and buy some very reasonably priced pottery from their retail outlet . |
| 20 | I squeeze my way up and try my key in the battered , irregular door at the top . |
| 21 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 22 | Try your luck at the fairest , squarest state lottery of them all ! |
| 23 | TRY YOUR LUCK OFF THE BEATEN TRACK |
| 24 | Try your hand at the Potter 's wheel . |
| 25 | Try your hand at the wheel |
| 26 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 27 | This month , RICHARD SMITH tries his hand at the new Acrylix brushes from Pro Arte . |
| 28 | I 'm looking forward to trying my luck in the Irish League , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 30 | By the end of the seventeenth century the high-street undertaker was trying his hand at the technique , much to the chagrin of the surgeons and the apothecaries . |