Example sentences of "try [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 2 | Two decades ago , Strahler tried valiantly to infuse a genetic approach into the subject but was greeted with meagre response … |
| 3 | But I tried always to have a quiet time with God before I started my revision that morning . |
| 4 | Both the Christian Democrats and the Socialists , long the leading partnership of Italian government , tried yesterday to put a brave face on their poor showing . |
| 5 | Separatists tried unsuccessfully to disrupt a military parade in Lithuania . |
| 6 | He had already interviewed Norman Tebbit about his exclusion from the afternoon 's debate on Europe — ' ’ Diabolical liberty ’ , says Norman , in conference outrage' — and tried unsuccessfully to have a word with Sir Charles Webb-Bowen . |
| 7 | Macdonald tried unsuccessfully to find a magistrate to receive his oath at the last minute , then sent his papers to Edinburgh , where Secretary of State and Master of Stair Sir John Dalrymple suppressed them . |
| 8 | Merrill tried unsuccessfully to introduce a note of matter-of-fact severity into her voice , but it did n't work . |
| 9 | Herbert Hobden ( Holzinger ) tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip as he was introduced , with his ten-year-old sister , to his new home : |
| 10 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 11 | The Allied politicians tried hard to find a solution , to resolve the conflicting demands of their own economies and ambitions along with those of the Poles and Germans . |
| 12 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 13 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 14 | UN engineers were still trying to repair the road to Gorazde , and there were plans to try again to get a convoy to the Cerska district as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it . |
| 16 | But of course there are times when you feel the need to run miles from a television studio , to seek relative anonymity away from strong lights , beckoning floor managers , and frantic messages in your ear-piece as you try simultaneously to deliver a dramatic link on a completely different subject . |
| 17 | International companies try increasingly to evolve a global vision in which their core economic activities are seen in a wider socio-economic context . |
| 18 | In other words , let us avoid a priori assertions about human nature and try instead to perform a systematic explication of indigenous ideas concerning human nature and social and cosmological relationships . |
| 19 | Everybody tries desperately to have a good time , but it never really happens . |
| 20 | On their return , Mrs Holt and the children had tried unsuccessfully to get a reaction with persistent knocking at the Shill 's door . |
| 21 | A hapless junior colleague , posted on the reception desk , tries simultaneously to flash a winsome welcome at browsing passers-by , and to pretend that nothing odd is happening behind her . |
| 22 | ANDY ROXBURGH may have tried manfully to build a protective shield against hype around Duncan Ferguson yesterday but Dundee United 's forward will play for Scotland against Portugal in next month 's World Cup qualifying tie for one simple reason — there is no-one better . |
| 23 | Such criticisms which may be made must , however , be made with a sense of reality , and with the understanding that many hospitals have tried hard to create a favourable atmosphere , and that considerable advances have been made in the care of mentally handicapped people inside large hospitals . |
| 24 | The tabloid press tries hard to make a Home Secretary 's life a misery . |
| 25 | Is it too much to ask that the boorish Directory Enquiry operator tries again to find a telephone number you know exits ? |
| 26 | She recalls abandoning the vehicle diagonally skewed across the space and trying discreetly to phone a colleague to ask how to back out — much to the amusement of all in the office . |
| 27 | Patristic Christology is subtle , for the fathers were trying rightly to express a complex issue . |
| 28 | She was the maid at Drew 's Maidstone lodgings , who had witnessed the actor spending half an hour in the garden of the premises trying desperately to clean a navy blue jacket . |
| 29 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 30 | The Peoples Democracy Platform , the reformers ' ally , wants to avoid a major split at all costs and are trying desperately to prevent a purge . |