Example sentences of "try [to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence another Cabinet meeting on Saturday , the 22nd … to try to agree on additional economies which would win Opposition support . |
| 2 | The scares that the Labour party tried to run on these matters have rebounded on it . |
| 3 | Chapter 4 gives a review of things which teachers can do , in the face of difficult circumstances , to preserve their equanimity , and to try to keep on good form . |
| 4 | It tried to fasten on innocuous bits of bark and leaf , but the scourge of curiosity forced it to leave them behind . |
| 5 | Afshar suggested , " Your Majesty , time will tell , but you could say to him " If you try to sit on two stills , you will fall between . " " |
| 6 | erm the ladies who are a bit obese and get all the sympathy you get all so skin or just skinny and suddenly you try to put on some weight , you just ca n't . |
| 7 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 8 | I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals . |
| 9 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 10 | On the contrary , by trying to re-create on specific occasions particular events associated with Osiris thought was concentrated on the present rather than on the past . |
| 11 | The latter , riffling some more paperwork furiously and uselessly , wondered to herself if this was the reason Deana squinted so horribly — she spent so much time trying to spy on two people at once . |
| 12 | Drinking — and not training weekends — meant my weight stuck on 12 stones ; trying to race on 20 miles a week , plus the drinking , was not on . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |