Example sentences of "try at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young man called Tepilit ole paramat , the laibon 's brother , tried at the last minute to withdraw one of his cattle from the sale . |
| 2 | Paul Newlove , a Featherstone player who did gain a place in this week 's Test squad , scored the first try at the other end , following Barry Drummond 's kick . |
| 3 | The people who run them shops ought to be tried at the Old Bailey and given years of 'ard labour . |
| 4 | When Emmeline Pankhurst was tried at the Old Bailey in April she drew attention to the white slavery issue in her speech from the dock . |
| 5 | Arrested and charged with embezzlement , he was tried at the Old Bailey but was released on his own recognizance of £100 , after making an offer of compensation . |
| 6 | But in 1953 the authorities solemnly sought to destroy copies of " The Kinsey Report " , and in 1956 a number of respectable publishers — Secker and Warburg , Heinemann and Hutchinsons — were all tried at the Old Bailey for " horrible tendencies " discovered in their current fiction lists . |
| 7 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 8 | Then I shall examine some criticisms of the monist position from a pluralist point of view , trying at the same time to bring out the presuppositions that underly such criticisms and showing that a clarification of these presuppositions demands a critical exploration of certain new philosophical topics that have not been touched on hitherto . |
| 9 | His young master brought him in repeatedly and I went through the motions , trying at the same time to make it clear that it was all hopeless . |
| 10 | The Guildsmen leapt out of his path , trying at the same time to bend a reverent knee . |
| 11 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 12 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |