Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |
| 5 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |