Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 3 | This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |
| 4 | ‘ P-please , sir , we tried to go in straight lines . |
| 5 | Hence another Cabinet meeting on Saturday , the 22nd … to try to agree on additional economies which would win Opposition support . |
| 6 | But it 's still in the interests of a subadult to try to mate with any snail that passes , in the hope of getting a bargain mating . |
| 7 | He tried to slip in unnoticed but it was too late . |
| 8 | Similarly , Richard , Olivier 's son by his third and last wife , Joan Plowright , has decided to talk about his unusual relationship with his father and his own involvement with the Men 's Movement , which uses dance , drumming and storytelling to try to compensate for absent fathers . |
| 9 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 10 | If you would like to visit the University we would urge you to try to come to one of the listed visiting days . |
| 11 | She tried to concentrate on that particular pain . |
| 12 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 13 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 14 | I am not such an optimist as to imagine that we are always going to agree with you about the type of regulation , or its costs , but I do want to emphasise that we are determined always to try to talk through contentious issues with you and to ensure that there is real dialogue . ’ |
| 15 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 16 | Years later , when I tried to talk of this , |
| 17 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 18 | Police are hunting a man who posed as a policeman , a water board worker and an electricity man to try to steal from old people . |
| 19 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 20 | So pressing his camera to my eye I tried to focus on this tanned , happy man , standing with one boot over the edge of a 200- or 300-foot drop , and the other on the edge of thin air . |
| 21 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 22 | The time course of Ac-ASA uptake was investigated to try to differentiate between true uptake and simple entrainment of drug in the glycocalyx . |
| 23 | Some played Monopoly ( which is a daft game to try to play in twenty minutes — even my Mum could n't go bankrupt in that time ) and others joined several games together and invented one new one which they called ‘ Scruvial Cluedopolybats ’ . |
| 24 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 25 | But , in a sinister turn of events , firemen were stoned by gangs of youths as they tried to deal with several out-of-control bonfires on Merseyside . |
| 26 | She had tried to be hard and grasping , tried to deal with this in a sophisticated , detached manner . |
| 27 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 28 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 29 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 30 | Mosley now tried to collaborate with other anti-war forces , but to little avail although this activity was to prove disastrous for the BUF in 1940 . |