Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] for [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 5 | ‘ People who try to screw you for that extra ten pence , ’ John offers . |
| 6 | From the prologues to the Heautontimorumenos and the Adelphoe we know that his competitors had tried to discredit him for this . |
| 7 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |