Example sentences of "have try [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of the surgeon 's skills , she has tried to make herself a mixture of the great beauties through the ages . |
| 2 | Sarah Jacobs has tried to build herself a life , saving for four years to buy furniture and applying for training courses . |
| 3 | But I think we would have tried to find her a job rather more removed from mine , over time . ’ |
| 4 | I had to try to give him a chance to be independent . |
| 5 | I 've tried to make them a little bit longer . |
| 6 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 7 | He had tried to give her an injection but it had only made her more hysterical . |
| 8 | At the Ryecroft bail hostel in Gloucester , where Hagans was living at the time , another witness said Hagans had tried to sell him a wedding ring for ten pounds , and was wearing a gold chain necklace . |
| 9 | My rambles through some of the recent linguistics literature , and into the undergrowth of conversational databases , searching for English , have been somewhat random , but I have tried to give them a unifying theme . |
| 10 | Once more we have tried to give you a balanced programme which reflects your comments and requests . |
| 11 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |