Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to breathe even less . |
| 2 | Particularly for those who cut or slice the ball , any tendency to try to hit too hard is often disastrous . |
| 3 | It is all about timing the action , curbing any tendency to try to hit too hard , and waiting for the clubhead . |
| 4 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 5 | Part of being selective is that it is also necessary to simplify the world in order to try to see more clearly just what a discipline can say about aspects of the world . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a mistake to try to go too fast , ’ says one of the founders , Richard Collings . |
| 7 | Navigation would be even more difficult if you tried to come home again — but you could well return before you set off . |
| 8 | It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently . |
| 9 | Yet most of the key figures in government concluded that they had no choice but to try to work even more closely with the United States , whatever their feelings on the subject of Suez . |
| 10 | He even tried to reload fast enough to have another crack at it , but it thumped into the wet heather near the river before he could get the shell into the gun . |
| 11 | The student should be encouraged never to try to progress too quickly , and so fail to assimilate what he/she is studying . |
| 12 | It tried to define more clearly those occasions when it could make a positive and explicit contribution to solving the problems facing local activists rather than just becoming involved in learning-through-doing activities with the latter . |
| 13 | Knox tried to create as wide a base as possible for his theocracy . |
| 14 | With she knew not what power of self-denial Sarella tried to edge away so that Marc 's body was n't pressing so vibrantly against her own . |
| 15 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 16 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to do far too much last year . |
| 18 | The result was that at the end of the decade British critics of the BFASS , few as they were , tried to draw together once again . |
| 19 | Indeed when our hosts tried to press still more on a woman 's plate and she blurted , ‘ I ca n't — I 'd be sick , ’ they looked quite delighted . |
| 20 | He tried to shout as clearly and as slowly as possible . |
| 21 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 22 | Then they tried to winch here out — it did not work , so they removed all the provisions during Sunday night to lighten her further . |
| 23 | Determinedly she put her worries and the root cause of her despondency behind her and tried to think more cheerfully . |
| 24 | Dismissing fears that her daughter might have been tricked into a fake marriage by a man determined to ruin her , Nora tried to think more positively , but her brain persistently returned to the appalling question , ‘ Why an Italian , for God 's sake ? ’ |
| 25 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 26 | There will be a tendency , when everything comes from the computer , you hear it already , ‘ oh it was the computer ’ , and that , I think , we want to try to change as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | He was right to try to improve the English game , but he tried to change too much too quickly . |
| 28 | A big effort was made in the late 1980s to try to get just about everyone over 15 to read and write , using more than 20,000 volunteer teachers , 14,000 of them women . |
| 29 | Well she she tried to act like really friendly like . |
| 30 | Not even light that tried to move directly outwards . |