Example sentences of "try [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crew tried to drive it away , and one man fired a rifle at it . |
| 2 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor would be much more constrained in his fiscal and monetary policies if Britain tried to go it alone . |
| 4 | With her eyes still crossed , she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards . |
| 5 | She rubbed her eye , and tried to open it again . |
| 6 | A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . |
| 7 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 8 | I think we tried to use it once , and it was like a comedy show , it was crazy . |
| 9 | Well , if they really tried to do it again and they failed , there 's not much else that we could ask them to do is there ? |
| 10 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 11 | He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner . |
| 12 | But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure like everyone thought I was . |
| 13 | ‘ But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure , which is what everyone thought I was . ’ |
| 14 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |
| 15 | He tried to read it again , upside down , but the Captain picked it up , murmuring as he glanced through it : ‘ It 's obvious from the way you sit . |
| 16 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't really understand all this Italian , ’ said Kaler , who played a paranoid John Paul II , as he tried to decipher it afterwards . |
| 18 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 19 | Although heaven knows we tried to keep it there . |
| 20 | We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it . |
| 21 | Er , there 's a suggestion that he had mild epilepsy , and they tried to keep it quite , and his father tutored him at home . |
| 22 | In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up . |
| 23 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 24 | Frantically the evil one tried to turn it aside but could not . |
| 25 | To dramatize the bureaucracy 's stifling effect , the ILD set up a phoney manufacturing shop and tried to get it legally recognized , step-by-step . |
| 26 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 27 | We hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 28 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 29 | And she would n't have it brushed and she was shaking her head about when you tried to brush it so . |
| 30 | As he tried to explain it later , when the ruins of arms-for-hostages were all around him , ‘ his heart and his best intentions ’ had ruled him . |