Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 2 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 3 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 4 | Events in Eastern Europe will affect all farmers and growers so it is important to try to understand something of the problems . |
| 5 | She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice . |
| 6 | The probationers told him to remember that every minute he was getting a little better , and Ward Sister told him not to make any effort , and not to try to take anything by the mouth . |
| 7 | At one extreme , it is possible to try to commit everything on the tape to paper . |
| 8 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 9 | And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do try to understand everyone in the group but I feel like I 'm holding people up , ’ said one group member . |
| 11 | It is out of this divided and constrained perspective that we have developed the materialistic theory of evolution and try to fit everything into the confines of such a bleak and narrow view . |
| 12 | I often don't. erm and in some ways coming on a programme like this , or finding other ways to make your views be heard is erm I think very important in a way which me and my colleagues try to do something about the anger that we 're feeling . |
| 13 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 14 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 15 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 16 | Though , just for the record , I would n't have tried to do anything of the sort if it were n't patently clear that you do n't feel anything lasting for your fiancé . ’ |
| 17 | In this chapter we have tried to convey something of the complexity of the events which are associated with the INSET developments originally conceived as an essential part of the ESSE/L Project aims , and also something of the achievements to which these events have led . |
| 18 | We have tried to convey something of the complexity and texture of the environment within which the project was conceived and developed , and through detailed case studies of three schools to illustrate the project in action . |
| 19 | Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails . |
| 20 | totally catastrophic if you start trying to treat one as the other and this is |
| 21 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 22 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 23 | I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here |
| 24 | ‘ We are still trying to organise something with the zoo but I have seen Emma and she is lovely . |
| 25 | ‘ Trying to fit everything into the calendar without having any major clashes is the biggest problem I face each year . ’ |
| 26 | Because — oh , because I 'm trying to help someone outside the family . |
| 27 | As Labour 's spokesman on Northern Ireland , one might enquire whether he would not be better employed trying to do something about the vermin planting bombs in the Six Counties rather than those worrying sheep in the Home Counties . |
| 28 | He 's been trying to do something about the brambles and nettles . ’ |
| 29 | It was no use trying to resolve anything over the phone , though . |
| 30 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |