Example sentences of "try [to-vb] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps .
2 The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated .
3 Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts .
4 They are brought by La Befana — a witch who tried to follow the Three Kings to see Jesus .
5 He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading .
6 His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers .
7 IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope .
8 Of course , no consultants are members of organisations such as NUPE and COHSE , so the hon. Gentleman should not try to run the two things together .
9 Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world .
10 I shall also describe some of the remarkable things that seem to happen when one tries to combine the two theories .
11 From this office a staff of 750 tries to control the 40,200 branches of Russia 's Savings Bank , or Sberbank .
12 The firm had also been asked by the Bank to make a s 41 report and was trying to finalise the 1990 accounts , which had been delayed by the lack of access to ICIC .
13 But until it does , constant confusion arises from trying to combine the two approaches .
14 Henry is trying to trace the two men with whom he has struck up an acquaintance :
15 Trying to keep the two sides apart .
16 So , no you wo n't know that we 're trying to get the two pilots out of er
17 So we 're trying to unite the two things together .
18 The Russians are certainly trying to bring the two sides together for talks and end the fighting , but , so far , they are finding it a hard row .
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