Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 2 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 3 | She looked at Fergus 's dim reflection , distorted in the glass , then tried to re-focus on her own image . |
| 4 | If you have problems or face difficult situations , do n't try to cope on your own . |
| 5 | People try to cope on their own . |
| 6 | This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms . |
| 7 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 8 | Try to think of your own original shapes as well , as these may be far more appealing to you than any suggestions I have made in this book . |
| 9 | You can choose from the list opposite , but try to think of your own words too . |
| 10 | ‘ We are all trying to cope in our own way . |
| 11 | He I 'm suppo he says to email him , contact him at the start of week zero , because he 's goin he he 's trying to remember of his own accord , but er ju this is just to give him a kick along in case he 's forgotten |
| 12 | You have in your hands a book which starts clearly enough with a character trying to escape from his author and which has now reached the opposite pole with the real author ( myself trying to escape from his own character . |
| 13 | She must have thought , at that moment , that each singer was a ‘ kitten ’ in distress , and she was no doubt trying to help in her own way . |
| 14 | Montgomery was n't sure , but in his own mind there were few more melancholy sights than a widower trying to manage on his own . |
| 15 | Also , the USA exported its long experience with trying to deal with its own soil erosion problems , as a part of foreign policy to its sphere of influence in Latin America in the 1950s , where there had been an almost complete lack of government concern over soil erosion . |
| 16 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |
| 17 | I 'm trying to diet on my own . |