Example sentences of "try [to-vb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 2 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 3 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 6 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 7 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 8 | The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service … |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't try to use the same argument on me ! |
| 10 | When you are helping the patient to wash , you should try to follow the same sequence as the nurse , and remember to keep describing to the patient everything that is happening . |
| 11 | If he responds try to keep the same tone . |
| 12 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
| 13 | He is still trying to sail the same course but the boat is just sliding sideways across the water . |
| 14 | Any attempt to quantify the relative intelligences of species — and even of human beings from different cultural backgrounds — is quite patently misguided : one is trying to apply the same measure to two qualitatively different things . |
| 15 | Fortunately , the crew were not then aware that in recent recorded history three men had perished trying to walk the same route in midwinter . |
| 16 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 17 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 18 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 19 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 20 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 21 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |
| 22 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 23 | Having the same general intention is not the same as trying to solve the same problem . |
| 24 | At a certain level of abstraction there is a sense in which any speech processing mechanism is trying to solve the same search problem ( see Goodman & Reddy 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Like advertising , it relies on the viewer 's instant recognition , while trying to shock the same viewer out of this automatic reaction . |
| 26 | I spent hours at one of those ‘ so many ’ stone circles near Garrynahine trying to get the same angle as JTR to no avail . |
| 27 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 28 | At the same moment you may be trying to tell the same editor an agreed version of what is happening at your client 's company . |