Example sentences of "try [to-vb] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew her husband was away on one of the seemingly endless ‘ summit , conferences governments of the world , and especially the Arab governments , invent to try to keep our human condition in existence . |
| 2 | We now determined to try to pursue our own scheme and teamed up with Trevor Osborne of Speyhawk . |
| 3 | It will be objected perhaps that it is too late in the day to try to re-establish our crumbling values on ‘ Be aware ’ , since the True is already sinking into the gulf which has swallowed the Beautiful and the Good . |
| 4 | A first step is to try to raise our own awareness of the issues involved in multicultural education generally . |
| 5 | If this is so , we need to be positive and confident about our experiences , and we should try to export our best attributes to others in the community . |
| 6 | In this chapter I shall try to locate our present concerns in a pattern of historical development , and seek to excavate from this a prognosis for the viability of current strategies and initiatives . |
| 7 | ‘ John Aldridge and I , who live in the same village , decided that we would try to print our own designs by the roll from our own blocks . |
| 8 | After about a year , and with a paid-up membership of about fifteen men and five women , we decided that we would try to organize our own disco at the town hall Assembly Rooms . |
| 9 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 10 | As the coffin slides into the furnace , we try to restrict our emotional involvement — sometimes at considerable psychological cost . |
| 11 | ‘ We try to keep our own plants running flat out , at maximum efficiency , and make up changing needs by buying in the varying five or 10 per cent above that from other manufacturers . |
| 12 | Many of us try to improve our other halves from time to time — perhaps you wish he were tidier while he would prefer you a little slimmer . |
| 13 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 14 | I have tried to persuade our excitable friend that he should do the same . ’ |
| 15 | We are trying to find our missing scientist now . ’ |
| 16 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 17 | Trying to keep our old boss happy and trying to keep the receivers happy but it just does n't work like that , you ca n't keep everybody happy . |
| 18 | Otto struck me as looking so out of place as to seem absurd , standing at the cottage door trying to approve our living accommodation , but clearly regarding it as unpromising . |