Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to get it last night .
2 So it 's still a pretty good wildlife area — and we must try to keep it that way .
3 If the Operator terminal is in use , the Offline System will try to access it several times in quick succession ; if it remains unavailable the Offline run will not take place and a message reporting the situation will be sent via the mail system to the Offline Manager .
4 I try to leave it one day , a believe me , it 's no more than you 'd die , like .
5 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
6 We try to keep it low temperature .
7 Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks !
8 Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive .
9 As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers .
10 I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere .
11 By the time it had found it , a lot of people in the old movies and new news business were shouting very angrily at one another down telephones , and some of them were feverishly trying to give it new instructions .
12 ( It will be found in Volume I of Hume 's Treatise which should be read at first hand , as we are not trying to do it any justice here . )
13 Another aim might be to see how far upwind you can sail in ten minutes , trying to beat it each time you do it in the future .
14 We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways .
15 See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can .
16 On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row .
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