Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 2 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 3 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 4 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 5 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 6 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 7 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 8 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 9 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 10 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 11 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 12 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 13 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 14 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 15 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 16 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 17 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 18 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 19 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 20 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 21 | The diversity of parallel computers located at EPCC has allowed researchers to try to determine which of these two approaches works best . |
| 22 | Sure enough , the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand . |
| 23 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 25 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 26 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 27 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 28 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 29 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 30 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |