Example sentences of "try [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 2 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 3 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 4 | From 1924 to 1930 , Dr Clarke maintains , he was mainly concerned with politics and policy , and tried to coordinate the two in a pincer movement on the Treasury . |
| 5 | Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps . |
| 6 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 7 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 8 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 9 | Donna tried to raise the .38 , anxious to get a shot at him , but he knocked her hand down and the gun discharged into the floor . |
| 10 | And I think they sat back a little bit , you know , and maybe tried to defend the three nothing lead . |
| 11 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 12 | The question was whether to settle for a return to the status quo , or to try to unite the two Koreas and achieve a victory over the communists . |
| 13 | They are brought by La Befana — a witch who tried to follow the Three Kings to see Jesus . |
| 14 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 15 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 17 | Of course , no consultants are members of organisations such as NUPE and COHSE , so the hon. Gentleman should not try to run the two things together . |
| 18 | Madeleine did n't try to organize the two of them . |
| 19 | Among the few who have tried to compare the two regions , French and Smith ( 1985 ) are concerned particularly with subpolar tundra , and Aleksandrova ( 1980 ) prescribes a simple geobotanical regional zoning that covers both polar and subpolar zones at both ends of the world . |
| 20 | I shall also describe some of the remarkable things that seem to happen when one tries to combine the two theories . |
| 21 | From this office a staff of 750 tries to control the 40,200 branches of Russia 's Savings Bank , or Sberbank . |
| 22 | In this book , tries to link the two . |
| 23 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 24 | Now , if I do n't go to this phone , what would that look like , it would n't be just dialling , would it , she lied , I 'm just trying to compare the two , because they are quite different . |
| 25 | A particular difficulty in trying to estimate the ninety-three , four er position , was erm , stemmed from er , the independence of further education colleges . |
| 26 | The firm had also been asked by the Bank to make a s 41 report and was trying to finalise the 1990 accounts , which had been delayed by the lack of access to ICIC . |
| 27 | No press release was made and I experienced extraordinary difficulties in trying to obtain the 1985 échelle des crus , Quite why this historic event was clothed in such secrecy is a mystery . |
| 28 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |
| 29 | What I was erm doing was trying to identify the three er characteristics of the er Maoist Communist Party as it emerged towards the end of the nineteen thirties which really disqualifies it , I think , from the label Marxist , means that it 's a completely different type of organization to what the Chinese Communist Party had been in the nineteen twenties . |
| 30 | But until it does , constant confusion arises from trying to combine the two approaches . |