Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 2 | Seeman tried to render it useful by identifying five meanings for it : |
| 3 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 4 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 5 | I must say it was a great relief not to have to try to understand it all from books . |
| 6 | Because of the conditions , I tried to keep it simple and was extra careful not to make any mistakes . |
| 7 | If we tried to keep it alive we had an open flank : some guy trying to save his own ass by telling them : ‘ Jeez if you drink I did bad things just look at what Magill and Tadham were doing in London . ’ |
| 8 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 9 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd heard of Lina 's return , of course , although they tried to keep it quiet . |
| 11 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 12 | She tried to hold it steady . |
| 13 | Tried to get it all in . |
| 14 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 15 | CHARLES TRIED TO think it all out on the Saturday morning . |
| 16 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 17 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 18 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 19 | It was so simple , however hard Izzie tried to make it sound difficult with all her ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 20 | She tried to make it sound casual but was aware that her tone had risen slightly . |
| 21 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 22 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 23 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 24 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 25 | I would hope that we might be able to arrange it but obviously if it is er out of the question , then we 'd have to try to rearrange it some other time . |
| 26 | I will try to find it entertaining , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Therapist : ‘ What we will do in this first session is an assessment of exactly what 's going on : first we will look at the problems at the moment ; second we will look at background factors such as your family and personal history ; and third we will try to pull it all together and formulate what is going on , and then decide on what the best course of action is . |
| 28 | Therapist : ‘ So let's try to pull it all together . |
| 29 | Otherwise , despite the rubble around him , he will have emerged from the war as an Arab hero , the man who took on and defied the Zionists , westerners and other infidels , and who will inevitably try to do it all again . |
| 30 | So it 's still a pretty good wildlife area — and we must try to keep it that way . |