Example sentences of "try [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can dramatize this by discussing the one time when I did try to aim for a distant target . |
| 2 | Wasps , defending the only unblemished record in Division One , lacked their usual buzz , but had former England international Huw Davies 's try to thank for a 10–6 win over spirited London Scottish . |
| 3 | Try to arrange for a written record of what has been agreed for the next meeting , so that you can work to an explicit plan . |
| 4 | The new season was two days away and Alex Ferguson , a manager trying to compensate for a previous disappointing campaign , had spent £2.5m on two midfielders , Mike Phelan and Neil Webb . |
| 5 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 6 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |