Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when scientists first tried to work out how life on Earth got started , they had to perfect their understanding of the original primeval gases , and whether and how such gases changed their nature . |
| 2 | I always tried to work out how many mating pairs we had . |
| 3 | In a survey of student activities one almost insuperable problem was to try to find out how many hours a week various sorts of students spent on ‘ practical work ’ . |
| 4 | The health and housing committee agreed to ask the North Wales Euro MP , Joe Wilson , to try to find out how other European countries tackle the problem . |
| 5 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 6 | Laura found herself repeatedly hurt by accusations in the press that they had become ‘ tax exiles ’ and tried to point out how the decision to live abroad had , on the contrary , been forced on them by their peripatetic lifestyle on the one hand and fear of punitive estate duty rates on the other . |
| 7 | ‘ I go to work early , ’ he replied , getting irritated as he tried to figure out how to switch on a standard lamp . |
| 8 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 9 | From his local library he got photocopies of the maps of his district for 1811 , 1843 and 1871 ; he 'd sit there and try to work out how the changes in the maps related to the view at night ; where the darkness of rookeries , courts and tenements had been replaced with the darkness of lampless parks and public gardens . |
| 10 | This may not work for you ; try to find out how associations assist you . |
| 11 | I just walk through the basic moves so the cameras can plot where everybody 's going to be , and we try to work out how long people will take to walk down the stairs so we can play the right amount of music . |
| 12 | He tries to spell out how we do it . |
| 13 | So far in this chapter I have tried to spell out how important it is to be clear where one starts from , where present trends are taking one to , and to be ruthlessly honest about the threats from the competition and from the external environment . |
| 14 | ‘ He has n't even tried to find out how I am , has he ? ’ |
| 15 | They had tried to find out how the accident had happened . |
| 16 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 17 | Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know . |
| 18 | There we were sort of trying to find out how many men . |
| 19 | In the meantime , I understand you have been trying to find out how the Carmel Woods inquiry went . |
| 20 | Sandra is one of a team of scientists trying to find out how mercury levels in the air are influenced by weather and other factors . |
| 21 | I hope that other hon. Members on green Benches — we can see mostly green Benches today — will join me in trying to find out how we can avoid the consultant-promoter corrupt relationship . |
| 22 | We are trying to find out how a prisoner was able to posess a cannister of what appears to be CS gas ’ . |
| 23 | There 's a , there 's a lot of dead people not dead cos their dead because they 've died of old age , dead because they were trying to find out how things work . |
| 24 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 25 | Some of the finest brains in the land will be spending the lifetime of the next government trying to work out how to crack Mr Kinnock . |
| 26 | Albert was trying to work out how , much younger Percy was than he himself . |
| 27 | They sat up late , trying to work out how to get rid of Donald . |
| 28 | I sat quietly trying to work out how I was going to give her Mum 's message . |
| 29 | And then it 'll be head down — trying to work out how she 'll combine motherhood with her new job as news announcer for Meridian TV when it goes on air in January . |
| 30 | First , they aid stock control , by extending sophisticated sales reporting abilities and bar code reading — no more walking around the shelves trying to work out how many cans of cat-food have been sold . |