Example sentences of "try [to-vb] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next time they returned to the windward mark , Paul Cayard tried to shoot the mark as Dennis Conner had done in the defenders ' trials on Tuesday . |
| 2 | Sir James , who as president of Sea Containers has expressed interest in some of BR 's busiest routes in the South East , says it would be ‘ hopeless ’ to try to run the railways as in the past . |
| 3 | Others outside tried to dodge the fires as flaming high-octane aviation fuel set a parkland near the flats alight . |
| 4 | At this stage , do n't be tempted to try to turn the model as this will inevitably lead you into a difficult situation with which you will not be able to cope . |
| 5 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
| 6 | The driver tried to quieten the horses as two screeching cats , fighting over some vermin , scurried out of the shadows . |
| 7 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 8 | She did n't try to fight the tears as her mind played and replayed the whole scene of Eddie 's last few moments of life . |
| 9 | They were innovators in that they were the first ones who did n't try to represent the melody as written . |
| 10 | ‘ Although I do n't try to shock I do try to make the moment as vividly alive for the audience as I can and that 's a sort of crusade , ’ he admits . |
| 11 | Try to remove the tarmac as it is hostile to plant roots . |
| 12 | If you get really stuck there 's always your minister or doctor , but try to make the reference as ‘ work-specific ’ as you possibly can . |
| 13 | Yet our art persists in trying to render the world as though it were here , now , available , he wrote . |
| 14 | I do n't know it 's engaged , er Jill 's trying to phone the school as well and that 's engaged , so I do n't know |
| 15 | The director may be trying to demonstrate the situation as it was then , but in not offering the viewer some entree into the little we see of the Black peoples interaction with each other , she colludes with it . |