Example sentences of "try [to-vb] they all " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 2 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 3 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 4 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 5 | But we have five games to play and we will try to win them all . |
| 6 | ‘ Shall we try to push them all under the water. ? ’ |
| 7 | What is certain is that there will be many surprises in 1992 , the game will have an ever-increasing worldwide audience , and there will be many more magnificent moments in 1992 that every tennis fan will treasure — and we , at Tennis World , will try to capture them all . |
| 8 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 9 | But — although this is very rare — you do sometimes come across one or two who seem to have a genuine interest and ‘ feel ’ for the birds ; then , obviously , I try to give them all the advice and encouragement I can . |
| 10 | Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media , they try to use them all . |
| 11 | One social services source told Sunday Life : ‘ The RUC was given all the names of boys who were placed in the home between 1981 and 1983 and they are trying to track them all down . |
| 12 | If you 're just trying to remember them all and you 've got all these words and letters floating round in your head it 's quite awkward is n't it trying to sort them out which is which cos there are you know millions of words . |
| 13 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 14 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |