Example sentences of "try [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 2 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 3 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 4 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 5 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 6 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 7 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 8 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 9 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 10 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 11 | The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success . |
| 12 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 13 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 14 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 15 | I tried to sell it to Ian |
| 16 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 17 | Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation . |
| 18 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 19 | I tried to load it into erm Word and it completely screwed up . |
| 20 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 21 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 22 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 23 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 24 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 25 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 26 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 27 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 28 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 29 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 30 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |