Example sentences of "try [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly .
2 It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy .
3 I doubt if most would take this view ; but if we would not , then we are forced to try to define with care the point at which handicap does become good reason .
4 Since jealousy has its roots in emotional insecurity it is these feelings , so often experienced but not recognised , that you must try to treat with sympathy and imagination ; remembering that you , one day , may feel just as your mother-in-law does .
5 George , wisely , did n't try to compete with guest Gary Moore and simply strummed his way through While my Guitar Gently Weeps as Moore 's Les Paul sobbed inconsolably — but by then it was all over bar the cheering .
6 In reality that would only increase white racism and try to solve with money a problem that can not be bribed away .
7 Remove all distractions in the vicinity of the phone and try to speak with firmness and decision .
8 ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us .
9 while speaking in ideology , and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology , in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific
10 After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened .
11 It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery .
12 The game was adjourned after 63 moves , with Speelman trying to win with rook and bishop against rook and pawn .
13 Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate .
14 Director of Studies : ‘ What are you actually trying to do with homework … have you limited aims … what about quality ?
15 T G I 's has now been persuaded but companies like these trying to deal with workplace stress are very much the exception .
16 Delegates to the conference , held in Pershore , Worcestershire , urged the government issue guidance to prevent independent schools from trying to deal with abuse allegations internally .
17 We all have our own funny ways of trying to deal with pain . ’
18 This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot .
19 I 'm try I 'm I I I I 'm trying to stay with need and purpose .
20 At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time .
21 The creation of the ocean of consumer debt now helping to float our prosperity , is a marvel equal to what Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to achieve with perestroika .
22 Spurs case judge accepted ‘ unreserved ’ apology from chairman Alan Sugar for contempt of court in allegedly trying to interfere with witness .
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