Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also tried to work with housewives , usually the wives of trade unionists . |
| 2 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 3 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 4 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 5 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 6 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 7 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 8 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 9 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 10 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 11 | Germans had to try to come to terms with the problem of ‘ collective guilt ’ for the events of the Hitler period . |
| 12 | Also it ignores the possibility of the brain 's own plasticity — that is , if one site is removed , another may become available to take over its tasks — issues with which the experiments of Chapter 11 will have to try to come to terms . |
| 13 | I need time to think , to try to come to terms with — ’ |
| 14 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 15 | And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires . |
| 16 | It would also improve upon January 's brutal monetary reform , which tried to deal with savings by confiscating some of them : the new plan would raise interest rates to encourage consumers to leave their money in the bank . |
| 17 | Fiona tried to negotiate about wages in lieu of notice . |
| 18 | Erm , Age Concern have recognized that , and wish to move in that direction , although quite clearly , as far as the existing staff are concerned , in the initial move there were certain erm , reservations and wishes and er , and uncertainties which they tried to address in discussions with us and in this paper . |
| 19 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 20 | At Hall Rise , a radio/cassette player , worth £120 , was taken and thieves tried to get into vehicles in Blott Rise , Town End Field and Sauls Avenue . |
| 21 | She tried to think of things to do . |
| 22 | Wrapped in the warm yellow glow of the wine , Rincewind tried to think of inn-sewer-ants in Circle Sea terms . |
| 23 | Karelius tried to think of arguments why she should not be , but failed to find any . |
| 24 | Thieves tried to break through shutters on a store in Battle Hill , Wallsend . |
| 25 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 26 | ‘ We knew nothing about what sort of paper to buy , we just tried to learn from books . |
| 27 | I think to be quite honest , if they 're not interested enough to try to get to classes |
| 28 | Hari said quickly , ‘ I 've told you not to try to get down stairs on your own , not with your legs so bad . ’ |
| 29 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 30 | The Tory coal rebels are demanding that at least 15 collieries remain open and gave warning that the Government could face defeat if it tried to push through proposals that were significantly out of line with the report of the Commons industry select committee earlier this year . |