Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 2 | The Magyar response to Vienna 's imposition of German was to try to enforce upon their non-Hungarian-speaking subjects the use of Hungarian . |
| 3 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 4 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 5 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 6 | She never tried to escape from their constant supervision , avoided both Lachlan and Farquhar like lepers , took sly slaps and pinches in silence , made much of loving her son , and could , they discovered , tell a story to make a corpse laugh . |
| 7 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 8 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 9 | After his inspection , he tried to think of something positive to say . |
| 10 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 11 | I tried to think of something dignified and contemptuous to say to the officer but could find nothing . |
| 12 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
| 13 | As she began on her soup she tried to think of what possible sin she could have committed to change his attitude towards her . |
| 14 | He then resumed his rapt attention to Angelina , thus leaving Gwendolen with no option but to try to think of something interesting to say to Oliver Michaels and Samuel Pipkin . |
| 15 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 16 | As the Welsh had been written off even by their most loyal supporters , the French media was at pains to try to explain to their bemused readership the concept of points differential , in other words point out that in order to win the cup France had to score at least as many points as England had in Dublin . |
| 17 | Robbed of speech , she tried to protest with her huge , bewildered eyes . |
| 18 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |
| 19 | But as the artist herself states , these images do not try to appeal to our erotic awareness , and that is perhaps why the intended commentary on the display of the female sex is not so obvious . |
| 20 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 21 | I try to think of something smart to say to hide the fact that I 'm beaten , and finally come out with a pathetic ‘ I could n't stay in this stink without puking on the carpet . |
| 22 | Tired and totally bewildered by their new surroundings , a group of 18 Bosnian refugees try to re-adjust to their new makeshift home in Kettering . |
| 23 | I could n't square what I was doing with the view of the world I have tried to transmit to my pubescent son : sex is a wonderful thing but it should be part of a loving relationship . |
| 24 | This was surely the lesson of the Macdonald Inquiry 's critique of antiracist education at Burnage High School , and this is what I have tried to indicate through my critical interrogations of the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism — especially in relation to the multifaceted nature of racism and the complexities of its intersection with gender and class ( see also Cohen and Rattansi , 1991 ) . |
| 25 | Some say — Vic has overheard them saying it — that he tries to compensate for his short stature by his aggressive manner . |
| 26 | She was one of nature 's ostriches , the sort of person who tries to deal with anything unpleasant by pretending it does n't exist . |
| 27 | Indeed he had not tried to disguise in his Middle East diaries what he knew would happen to the soldiers . |
| 28 | Ever since coming upon Rousseau 's writings so long ago , I have tried to live with my dear wife above the glaciers in the condition he would have approved , that of the Noble Savage — in defiance of those citified creatures who multiply in the valleys far below . |
| 29 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 30 | When a contract is made following initial telephone contact and one party tries to rely on its standard terms , it is likely that the other will dispute the incorporation of the terms . |