Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to try to work as best we can and pray . ’ |
| 2 | If attention and eyes are on the washing-up , it is unwise to try to speechread as well and frustrating to stop in the middle to look at the speaker ( possibly expensive in breakages too ! ) |
| 3 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 4 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |
| 5 | At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared . |
| 6 | During the Second World War the Portuguese Government tried to insist that only neutral ships be used , but this was often ignored . |
| 7 | And if you were to try to extend that very demanding conception over the dandelions and the tapeworms as well , you would be in trouble . |
| 8 | Robbie flinched , tried to retreat and once again found there was nowhere to retreat to . |
| 9 | If I tried to teach that here , I should get the sack . ’ |
| 10 | I 've got the ones that tried to eat as well . |
| 11 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 12 | She tried to follow and almost fell down the stairs , gritting her teeth to prevent herself passing out . |
| 13 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 14 | This situation carried on for a few weeks , she would try to talk but always just ended up leaving some food on the step . |
| 15 | Why do n't you try to talk and maybe get it all in some sort of perspective ? ’ |
| 16 | I said , you ca n't be a proper prisoner if you do n't try to escape and now do n't let's talk about it — agreed ? |
| 17 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 18 | The poor citizen , bewildered by its ever-changing complexities , finds himself the victim of the muddled thinking and uncertain draftsmanship of the legislators who have multiplied words without knowledge , and must try to understand and then live with an Act of which he has suffered great difficulty and delay in obtaining a copy . |
| 19 | Try to cope but often luck " , but apparently on a fail . |
| 20 | As we straighten our tie and suck on a Cloret , we reflect gloomily that the Mail on Sunday categorized Denice 's former dates as ‘ rich , famous and suntanned ’ and we try to hope that perhaps she feels like a change . |
| 21 | Ari tries to scream and then … |
| 22 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 23 | The vulnerability she had long felt was the open heart she had tried to close as soon as she looked into those powerful eyes . |
| 24 | In other cases , governments have tried to regulate but often been ineffective ; it is hard to enforce regulations such as those that prevent ships discharging oil at sea . |
| 25 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 26 | There will always be the problem of trying to infer whether apparently tacit collusion really was well-concealed explicit collusion . |
| 27 | Erika frowned and tilted her head as if trying to remember and then , cruelly , said , ‘ Oh yes , where I danced with that interesting lad , and with Herman Guttenbruk . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I stopped trying to win and just thought about making enough money to stay ahead of everybody else . |
| 29 | I was trying to suggest that instead of actually definitely writing novels with a very straightforward moral theme , the theme of the novel being that you must do this or terrible things will happen , instead of doing that erm she is anxious to write novels which show you moral possibilities , that somebody or other may actually get into difficulty because they fail to understand something about somebody else and I think that these novels are intended to tell people more about themselves that erm they might otherwise realize . |
| 30 | I heard you trying to persuade and then threaten this young lady to get her into your car , and it 's not the first time I 've witnessed such a thing . |