Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off .
3 ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family .
4 But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title .
5 On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation .
6 George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest :
7 It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way .
8 Bill Clinton ( who has thought these things through ) might have tried to persuade them of this .
9 To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often .
10 From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this .
11 Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years .
12 ‘ What were you trying to teach me in this Lord ? ’
13 oh cos Robin Day was really trying to get him with this nuclear thing
14 Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ?
15 So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning .
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