Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last October George Bush was asked to sign a bill that tried to restore things to the more liberal way they were between 1971 and 1989 . |
| 2 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 4 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 5 | I tried to arrange guides on the drum sander but quickly gave up . |
| 6 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 7 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 8 | Mountbatten tried to tempt Bogyoke with the post of Deputy Inspector-General and the British rank of Brigadier : he was too shrewd to be side-tracked in that way . |
| 9 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 10 | It was not surprising that students tried to find places in the ‘ good ’ work units which offered decent conditions along with a chance of self-development and advancement . |
| 11 | Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause . |
| 12 | And to try to create jobs for the women so that even if their men are out of work they can provide at least some income . |
| 13 | It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act . |
| 14 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 15 | At that same January meeting , Maritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of porting Windows NT to its Sparc RISC . |
| 16 | At that same January meeting , Apritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of putting Windows NT onto its Sparc RISC . |
| 17 | You are allowed to try to pump breath into the patient through a handkerchief , if that helps . |
| 18 | What we must do — until today there has been a broad measure of agreement on this — is to try to focus attention on the Bill 's aims and motivations . |
| 19 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |
| 20 | Then , the GLC , appalled at the waste and dereliction of this gigantic site in the heart of London , declared the place an ‘ Action Area ’ and tried to inspire development from the top down . |
| 21 | It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here . |
| 22 | This prompted Gorbachev on May 27 to make a televised address to the country to try to calm fears about the market reform plan and to appeal for support . |
| 23 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 24 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 25 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 26 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 27 | The need to try to understand situations from the child 's point of view is also much better appreciated , as are the difficulties involved in children functioning in disembedded ways . |
| 28 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union , for its part , tried to build relationships within the region in the hope that it could displace the Western powers on the tide of Arab nationalism . |
| 30 | Moulton was directed to try to stem unrest in the remainder of the fleet , and also did his best to rally support for Parliament among shipowners and seafarers in London . |