Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd brought the corpse in and then tried to claim commission on it . |
| 2 | The NCC cited an allegation by Suffolk Citizen 's Advice Bureau of a woman on income support who telephoned the bailiff 's office to try to arrange payment in instalments of her Community Charge arrears . |
| 3 | Martin Foulds reported that Len 's alcohol problem had been previously discussed with the medical team and it had been decided to try to arrange counselling for him . |
| 4 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 5 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 6 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
| 7 | William Hughes and the Unitarian William Roscoe , following Granville Sharp 's argument in the 1770s , asserted the scriptural sanction of slave trading to have only particular application ; they tried to bolster scripture as a reliable instrument of antislavery revelation by insisting that Harris ' reliance on the Old Testament had to be modified or abrogated by the New Testament . |
| 8 | SHERPA Tashi Tenzing , 27 , grandson of Tenzing Norgay , one of the two men who first climbed Mt Everest , yesterday told a New Zealand newspaper he planned to try to scale mountain on 29 May , the 40th anniversary of the first ascent . |
| 9 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 10 | The imperial governor of the duchy of Spoleto , Conrad of Urslingen , tried to remain governor as vassal of the pope . |
| 11 | In order to bypass this traditional way of seeing society , Marx turned away from administrative and political organization and tried to see society in different , more fundamental terms . |
| 12 | Toby tried to see Onyx as an Eton games master 's wife . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 14 | Every year the rich world pumps in billions of dollars of aid to try to breathe life into Africa 's listless economies . |
| 15 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 16 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 17 | The plaintiff tried to obtain collection of a debt under the contract by way of summary judgment , and , when the defendant attempted to raise a counterclaim for breach which would entitle him to defend the case , relied on this clause . |
| 18 | In other words , signers are not asked to try to communicate information to a foreign signer , but are instructed to use their own sign languages when addressing a same- or different-language partner . |
| 19 | Despite widespread agreement that opencast coal mining is among the most environmentally destructive activities carried out in Wales , the Government has until recently tried to increase output from this method . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 21 | At about 0345 it was decided to try to position Locative in a better position for helicopter winching by towing her into the wind . |
| 22 | He tried to pull Caspar with him so that they would be hidden by a tree , but Caspar hung back barking . |
| 23 | So scientists are turning to organic chemistry to try to synthesise paclitaxel with yew tree cells grown in laboratories . |
| 24 | In the Eighties he tried to find success with his ex-wife , Anoushka , who for a while was signed to Rusty Egan 's Metropolis label as a potential new romantic diva . |
| 25 | The lord president tried to attract support by embarking on a reform of the council , particularly by a reduction in its fees ; but it could make little progress against the obstructionism of Secretary Ingram , who had the backing at court of the lord treasurer , Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v . ) . |
| 26 | After a long wait they tried to attract attention by sounding their horns . |
| 27 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 28 | We set out to try to find evidence of those links in order to understand what made the spontaneous collaboration possible . |
| 29 | When it came to actually making policy , however , and actually using ‘ the power we had to try to secure self-government in Indo-China ’ , not only would the problems of intervention against US allies presumably have been more difficult than against her enemies , but there was always the risk as well that circumstances might prejudice ideal or even optimum solutions . |
| 30 | I do nt know much about the second half , except that Hodges tried to maim dorigo with an elbow , and should have been sent off . |