Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 2 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 3 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 4 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 5 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 6 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 7 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 8 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 9 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 10 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 11 | He shifted uncomfortably and tried to give her a reassuring grin . |
| 12 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 13 | They knew we did n't get on , and they never tried to get us a flat or nowt , so when I got out of prison with him I was just on my own . |
| 14 | Tried to get you a better bargain . |
| 15 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 16 | Do n't worry , George , I 'm not about to sally forth on my old hobby-horse , not for long anyway , just long enough to try to explain what the greatest number means in the term the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 17 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 18 | Laura , having grasped the necessity of a calm private life for herself , tried to make it an attainable goal for all through her products . |
| 19 | It will try to identify what the key moments of commitment/disengagement are , when , and to whom , school offers self-fulfilment and when it operates denial ; whether patterns of differentiation persist within the national framework of ‘ entitlement ’ and equality of opportunity . |
| 20 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't try to give her a good character , Mrs Fairfax , ’ said Mr Rochester sternly . |
| 22 | In this article I will try to give you a few tips to make life a little easier . |
| 23 | We should try to make it a significant factor in the dramas we create . |
| 24 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 25 | Reporters try to establish what the unfolding events mean to the principal actors concerned . |
| 26 | Try to allocate yourself a set time each day when you will practise your exercises . |
| 27 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 28 | odd fifty P here , and pound here and I always try to give them a little bit . |
| 29 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 30 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |