Example sentences of "try [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 2 | In 1974 an attempt to begin to restore self-government through a new Northern Ireland Executive , elected by proportional representation to try to provide for the involvement of the Catholic minority in government , was brought to an end after a strike by Protestant workers . |
| 3 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 4 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 5 | Each group is to try to negotiate for the release of a child . |
| 6 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 7 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 8 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
| 9 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 10 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 11 | Without it , the camcorder will try to compensate for the reduced light by increasing the exposure , and the picture will look muddy rather than magical . |
| 12 | I can dramatize this by discussing the one time when I did try to aim for a distant target . |
| 13 | The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law . |
| 14 | I am considering all the things now that I was then and may try to qualify for the US Senior Tour in November . |
| 15 | Wilkinson will now try to qualify for the British Open as he aims for a European tour card later in the year . |
| 16 | Let us try to account for the ( most probable ) different interpretations of bank in the way that we did for car . |
| 17 | Wasps , defending the only unblemished record in Division One , lacked their usual buzz , but had former England international Huw Davies 's try to thank for a 10–6 win over spirited London Scottish . |
| 18 | This is not simply a problem which affects writers and journalists , but more importantly it plagues the lives of people in those regions , and those in government who try to plan for the future . |
| 19 | Try to arrange for a written record of what has been agreed for the next meeting , so that you can work to an explicit plan . |
| 20 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 21 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |
| 22 | She 'd sit in her dressing-gown by the window and try to listen for the electric trams on the distant street , anything to give some kind of shape or structure to her day , but the noise made even this impossible . |
| 23 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
| 24 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 25 | ‘ When you get back to bed try to sleep for a bit . |
| 26 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 27 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 28 | ‘ Sit down and try to relax for a minute . ’ |
| 29 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 30 | I do n't want to bring out a girl with six CSEs or 16+s who ca n't look after her baby , so you try to cater for the individual need . |