Example sentences of "try [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time she chose to take British citizenship , which was her right and elected to try to play for Britain . |
| 2 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 3 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 4 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 5 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 6 | Charsky tried to call for help , but his voice was frail ; then , to his amazement , he heard a strong voice from somewhere to his left shout : ‘ We 're on our way down ! |
| 7 | Designers of training materials intended for national or area use tried to allow for board members who would differ in experience and working diverse contexts . |
| 8 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 9 | She closed her eyes and tried to pray for Maggie , but did n't know where to start . |
| 10 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 11 | She would have told Jacob about her new purpose , but she knew he would see it as another sign of her raving , a sign of some new imbalance , and would try to search for causes , try to talk her out of it . |
| 12 | We would try to do for Rotherham what Checkers discos had done for Sheffield . |
| 13 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 14 | It is possible to cite one case to illustrate what they try to do for victims which further demonstrates the commitment of the unit to a welfare service role . |
| 15 | We now try to duplicate for polynomials some of the basic definitions and theorems set down earlier when investigating Z. We shall find out that , despite the obvious differences in appearance between the elements of Z and those of Q[x] , the underlying structures of these two systems are quite similar . |
| 16 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 17 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 18 | When alarmed , these animals usually try to make for cover , seeking out their burrows or some other hiding place where they can wedge themselves in as tightly as possible . |
| 19 | Editors always assume that photographs from PR sources can be used free of charge , and any PR outfit which tries to charge for pictures is likely to get short shrift . |
| 20 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 21 | In the past we 've had people like Leslie Crowther and the Beverly Sisters , and I 'm currently trying to arrange for Frankie Vaughan , Joan Regan or Paul Shane to come along . |
| 22 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 23 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 24 | Getting pissed off trying to apply for jobs ( I have n't applied for any yet and I 've missed loads of deadlines ) just thought that somebody out there may have a high flying job for a graduate ( preferably in leeds ) that pays loads of money . |
| 25 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 26 | I think he was trying to call for help . |
| 27 | The theorem , and the model of competition it defends , are at their weakest when trying to account for deals struck between small numbers of transactors — in other words , when the assumption of many buyers and sellers does not hold . |
| 28 | The man , who was in his 20s , fled after trying to pay for £70 worth of food at the store in Fiveways , Birmingham , with a stolen Barclaycard . |
| 29 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 30 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |