Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 5 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 6 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 7 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 8 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 9 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 10 | What I will write here will be in a language most will understand and , wherever possible , I have thrown out complex biochemical concepts , trying to translate them into simple concepts that everyone will understand . |
| 11 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |