Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 2 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The plaintiff tried to obtain collection of a debt under the contract by way of summary judgment , and , when the defendant attempted to raise a counterclaim for breach which would entitle him to defend the case , relied on this clause . |
| 7 | In other words , signers are not asked to try to communicate information to a foreign signer , but are instructed to use their own sign languages when addressing a same- or different-language partner . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 9 | At about 0345 it was decided to try to position Locative in a better position for helicopter winching by towing her into the wind . |
| 10 | I do nt know much about the second half , except that Hodges tried to maim dorigo with an elbow , and should have been sent off . |
| 11 | In 1986 engineers of the two companies tried to reach agreement on a shared transmission . |
| 12 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 13 | At that same January meeting , Maritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of porting Windows NT to its Sparc RISC . |
| 14 | At that same January meeting , Apritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of putting Windows NT onto its Sparc RISC . |
| 15 | You are allowed to try to pump breath into the patient through a handkerchief , if that helps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here . |
| 19 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After a short persuit through the city streets the driver tried to dodge traffic at the Barton Gates junction on Eastgate street . |
| 24 | George Graham was amazed , too , after seeing another high-octane Arsenal performance lack only the finishing touch against a weakened Coventry side who manfully tried to keep pace with the champions . |
| 25 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 26 | The Bretton Woods arrangements tried to ensure cooperation in the international monetary system , not only through the institutional arrangements for the operation of the IMF but also through the widespread acceptance of certain rules of conduct . |
| 27 | As he tried to grab hold of the beautifully-lit see-through material held by the other men in the show , he called out , ‘ Give me a bit ! |
| 28 | Conker hurried to begin with , gregarious as usual , then he slowed and tried to snatch grass from the hedgerows , the long stalks of cow parsley dangling from his mouth . |
| 29 | It was left to the Federal Government through the 1976 Health Manpower Ball , to try to force compliance on the schools by making federal capitation grants conditional on the schools increasing the proportion of primary care graduates to 50 per cent by 1980 . |
| 30 | If you really can not find the space anywhere else in the home you will have to try to squeeze space in the kitchen ( or go to a launderette ) . |