Example sentences of "try [to-vb] it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 2 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 3 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 4 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
| 5 | We should try to make it a significant factor in the dramas we create . |
| 6 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 7 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 8 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 9 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |
| 10 | There were comments last time about trying to give it a name so people realized where it was . |
| 11 | As with viewing figures , the newsmen knew a juicy liaison , especially if those involved are trying to keep it a secret , does wonders for sales and circulation . |
| 12 | ‘ We are trying to keep it a surprise for our honoured guests . ’ |