Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government tried to drive out inflation by announcing that it was prepared to exchange paper money for specie . |
| 2 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 3 | ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event . |
| 4 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 5 | The Tories might have got away with that but the latest revelation that the Home Office trawled through 25-year-old confidential files to try to dig up dirt on Mr Clinton is as outrageous as it is mind-boggling . |
| 6 | Do not try to speed up progress by doing more goals in any one week than you should . |
| 7 | So I said well I said , I usually try to get here quarter past ten or soon after but it all depends on traffic because I live the other end of the town . |
| 8 | A number of journalists try to exploit then novelty of his ‘ death and amazing recovery ’ ; other people who try to help him find him difficult to relate to . |
| 9 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 10 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 11 | International : Army tries to fend off blame for shelling |
| 12 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 13 | That 's the um general er consensus in most of the things I 've read in trying to find out stuff for this lecture . |
| 14 | It was the first time that the men 's and women 's championships had been combined and I think that Marea Hartmann , the Secretary , was trying to drum up publicity for her side of the event . |
| 15 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 16 | The pope was still trying to conjure up support for Otto . |
| 17 | In case you think I eat a lot I 'll reel you my standard excuse , which is that I 'm trying to put on weight for rugby . |
| 18 | They are a side trying to build up confidence at the moment . |
| 19 | Laser beams consist of photons which , though small by atomic standards , have a cumulative inertial effect , Dr Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado , who heads one research group , says that cooling an atom with a laser beam is like trying to slow down movement of a heavy object by bombarding it with ping-pong balls . |
| 20 | Indeed , while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities , the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas . |
| 21 | As the Financial Times pointed out , there are rational arguments for the government to borrow the money , instead of trying to hold down investment in order to raise the funds from private investors and short term price rises for consumers of 7 per cent above inflation or more . |
| 22 | The X Business Group , the market research house , is trying to stir up support among vendors for another X consortium besides The X Consortium . |
| 23 | " There are outside forces in Russia and China trying to stir up trouble for us here . " |
| 24 | The Bill lays down very clearly that under certain circumstances the House is increasing the penalties , that it is trying to stamp out corruption of youth and minors , which is possibly the most important element in the Bill . |