Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 2 | Laura , having grasped the necessity of a calm private life for herself , tried to make it an attainable goal for all through her products . |
| 3 | We should try to make it a significant factor in the dramas we create . |
| 4 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 5 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 6 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |