Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 2 | They tried to drive off a pair of pack beasts . ’ |
| 3 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 4 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 5 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 6 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 7 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 8 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 9 | It was alleged that Moin tried to scuff up the pitch — but England officials said yesterday that they would not study the video . |
| 10 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 11 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 13 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 14 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 15 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 16 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 17 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 18 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 19 | KUWAIT was in the thick of battle last night as leading oil producers tried to hammer out a deal which would prevent prices collapsing when winter demand drops . |
| 20 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 21 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 22 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 24 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 25 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 26 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 27 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 28 | Just as he had had the nerve to try to pick up the casting director at his first audition , so he had the taste and — in sociological terms — the cheek to seek out the stylish and lovely Nina Bawden , later the novelist . |
| 29 | At the age of 67 , he probably felt it was too late to try to pick up the pieces . |
| 30 | She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy . |