Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 2 | But it 's still in the interests of a subadult to try to mate with any snail that passes , in the hope of getting a bargain mating . |
| 3 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 4 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 5 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 6 | The time course of Ac-ASA uptake was investigated to try to differentiate between true uptake and simple entrainment of drug in the glycocalyx . |
| 7 | It may be impracticable and unrealistic in segmentation terms for a company to try to incorporate into one product all the benefits and costs sought by all potential customers . |
| 8 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 9 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 10 | Chapter 4 gives a review of things which teachers can do , in the face of difficult circumstances , to preserve their equanimity , and to try to keep on good form . |
| 11 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 12 | John Haden , headmaster of Wymondham College in Norfolk and chairman of the Boarding Schools Association , tried to get beyond dismal economics in his speech to the conference : ‘ I want to move on this week from value-added to added values … we need confidence in the values , moral and spiritual , which our schools uphold and celebrate ’ , he said . |
| 13 | I cooked and ate and even washed up ; tried to get into some music and resisted the temptation to open a bottle of wine . |
| 14 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 15 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 16 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 17 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 18 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 19 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 20 | Sometimes that world can seem unfair , but even when he lost his driving licence for a year for failing to give a breath test , he quipped : ‘ I really tried to blow into that machine but I 'm a singer not a bugler . ’ |
| 21 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 22 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 23 | Small groups , say three or four , agree among then , selves that they will try to cover for each other when one of the group has a problem . |
| 24 | Before we explore the influence of ‘ speaker 's topic ’ , we shall try to illustrate in some detail the way in which conversational participants ‘ speak topically ’ , by making their contributions relevant to the existing topic framework . |
| 25 | Later chapters will try to disentangle in greater detail the effect of New Right ideas on actual Conservative health policies throughout the 1980s as one strand ( albeit an important one ) of influences in the skein of policy development . |
| 26 | After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France . |
| 27 | Phil Edmonds had the most perfect bowling action , probably only matched by the great Bishen Bedi , and one you would gladly try to teach to any youngster . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 29 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 30 | The notion of man as an ‘ amplifier ’ which I take to mean that he enlarges programmes of skill , which have been developed by another , in order to manipulate machines is one that has far-reaching consequences as I shall try to show in this paper . |