Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 2 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 3 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 4 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 5 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 6 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 7 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 8 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 9 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 10 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 11 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 12 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 13 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 14 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 15 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 16 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 18 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 19 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 20 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 21 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 22 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 23 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 24 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 25 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 26 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 27 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 28 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 29 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 30 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |