Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 2 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 3 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 4 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 5 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 6 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 7 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 9 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 10 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 11 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 12 | Germans had to try to come to terms with the problem of ‘ collective guilt ’ for the events of the Hitler period . |
| 13 | I need time to think , to try to come to terms with — ’ |
| 14 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 15 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |
| 16 | I tried to talk to Branwell about it , but it was impossible . |
| 17 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 18 | Whereas in the first half they virtually tried to play through Thomson on everything . |
| 19 | It is , indeed , essential to try to embark on reform from a different base . |
| 20 | It would also improve upon January 's brutal monetary reform , which tried to deal with savings by confiscating some of them : the new plan would raise interest rates to encourage consumers to leave their money in the bank . |
| 21 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 22 | Fiona tried to negotiate about wages in lieu of notice . |
| 23 | Erm , Age Concern have recognized that , and wish to move in that direction , although quite clearly , as far as the existing staff are concerned , in the initial move there were certain erm , reservations and wishes and er , and uncertainties which they tried to address in discussions with us and in this paper . |
| 24 | I repeat that , as a result of the Government 's policy , we had to import a vet every single day of last year to try to keep on top of animal diseases . |
| 25 | The social worker tried to mediate without success in the available time . |
| 26 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 27 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 28 | At Hall Rise , a radio/cassette player , worth £120 , was taken and thieves tried to get into vehicles in Blott Rise , Town End Field and Sauls Avenue . |
| 29 | She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me . |
| 30 | I lay there and I heard this zip go z-z-zip up , god someone 's coming in tent , tried to get in bed with us . |