Example sentences of "try [verb] [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 2 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 3 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 4 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 5 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 6 | I must say it was a great relief not to have to try to understand it all from books . |
| 7 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 8 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 9 | Tried to get it all in . |
| 10 | CHARLES TRIED TO think it all out on the Saturday morning . |
| 11 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 12 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 13 | Therapist : ‘ What we will do in this first session is an assessment of exactly what 's going on : first we will look at the problems at the moment ; second we will look at background factors such as your family and personal history ; and third we will try to pull it all together and formulate what is going on , and then decide on what the best course of action is . |
| 14 | Therapist : ‘ So let's try to pull it all together . |
| 15 | But we have five games to play and we will try to win them all . |
| 16 | Otherwise , despite the rubble around him , he will have emerged from the war as an Arab hero , the man who took on and defied the Zionists , westerners and other infidels , and who will inevitably try to do it all again . |
| 17 | ‘ Shall we try to push them all under the water. ? ’ |
| 18 | What is certain is that there will be many surprises in 1992 , the game will have an ever-increasing worldwide audience , and there will be many more magnificent moments in 1992 that every tennis fan will treasure — and we , at Tennis World , will try to capture them all . |
| 19 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 20 | You almost never find all the symptoms of the case in a remedy picture and you will never find all the symptoms of a remedy in the disease picture of the case , so do not look for it or try to fit it all in . |
| 21 | If you try to do it all in one go , you will almost always be dissatisfied with the result . |
| 22 | But — although this is very rare — you do sometimes come across one or two who seem to have a genuine interest and ‘ feel ’ for the birds ; then , obviously , I try to give them all the advice and encouragement I can . |
| 23 | Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media , they try to use them all . |
| 24 | We try to keep you all happy . |
| 25 | I just try to forget it all now , but I might have to go back . |
| 26 | If you try to learn it all , the sport will seem very complex . |
| 27 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 28 | Mr Crangle had tried to persuade him all night not to take the Bookman away but all Mr Slipper had done was smile and ask him not to be so unfriendly . |
| 29 | what 's he trying to smash it all up for ! |
| 30 | People were trying to pinch it all the time . |