Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding himself in some difficulties , with his ship seized by order of the customs commissioners in Edinburgh , Bailie Hooks offered to try to carry the burgh of Wigtown for the candidate favoured by the Duke of Argyll in return for some ready cash and the expectation of assistance with the Court of Exchequer . |
| 2 | Yesterday , the unyielding men of terror tried to claim the province 's 3,001st victim . |
| 3 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 4 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 5 | During 1990 and early 1991 the Vietnamese leadership continued to try to implement the plan initiated by Nguyen Van Linh in 1986 to transform the country 's centralized economy to a market-orientated system . |
| 6 | In some organizations it is futile to try to implement an idea-handling procedure of any kind . |
| 7 | A further court case , in which Lothar Neethling from the forensic laboratory , now a lieutenant-general and number three in the South African Police , tried to sue a newspaper for calling him a poisoner , showed Coetzee to be a reliable and accurate witness . |
| 8 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 9 | The swarm struck after Jack Ibbs tried to swat a queen bee from his cab in a lay-by in Upavon , Wilts . |
| 10 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 11 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 12 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 13 | In 1913 Lord Selborne tried to mount a campaign against the sale of honours but he had a lukewarm response : Salisbury thought it would not achieve anything useful , Lansdowne urged that the views of the party organizers should be sought , and Law urged him " not to obscure the Marconi issue " . |
| 14 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 15 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 16 | A professor of chemistry , Mr Gidaspov is expected to try to galvanise the party campaign , in the same way as Mr Yuri Prokofyev , the new party leader in Moscow . |
| 17 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 18 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |
| 19 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 20 | Like many others during his age , Spenser developed a variety of tactics to try to fudge the fact that England was ruled by a woman . |
| 21 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 22 | We were 3-0 up and putting on the pressure to try to kill the tie . |
| 23 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 24 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 25 | It would explain the extraordinary letter about the cheque — an act of ludicrous personal generosity to help Ingard out of a hole , or , perhaps , more sanely , to try to preserve the shipping company from going down if the rest of the empire crashed . |
| 26 | Rostov walked a little way off , squatted on his heels on the grass , and tried to pretend a calm he did not feel . |
| 27 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 28 | Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap . |
| 29 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 30 | To further aggrandize himself , he tried to supplant the captain as our host . |