Example sentences of "try find some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 3 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 4 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 5 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 6 | I would definitely need to try to find some help from somewhere . |
| 7 | Two years ago , she had brought the whole thing to a halt by leaving Hong Kong and moving here , to London , to try to find some peace of mind . |
| 8 | Secondly , whenever local politics were looked at , they were investigated using quantitative statistical techniques , used to try to find some sort of ‘ link ’ or ‘ association ’ between local inputs ( such as population density , income per capita , degree of urbanization ) and policy outputs ( usually levels of expenditure on particular services ) . |
| 9 | Slorne stared , her feathers a silvery grey in the night , and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak . |
| 10 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 11 | Try to find some aspect that you can praise genuinely . |
| 12 | Joy said that this really was n't on and that they must pull up at the side of the road and try to find some stones or something with which to wedge the coffin . |
| 13 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 14 | Again , wearily , I went through the old routine ; ferreting around in the calf pen , trying to find some clue . |
| 15 | We are trying to find some kind of intellectual humanisation which will respect market economic principles , but we have a great distaste for the social Darwinism of Milton Friedman . |
| 16 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 17 | Her legs were slightly parted and her toes curled convulsively , as though trying to find some support to relieve her vertiginous predicament . |
| 18 | The temptation is to concentrate on trying to find some way of proving Fred 's guilt or innocence . |
| 19 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 20 | But we 're not all the homework we 're just trying to find some pattern in the spelling . |
| 21 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 22 | Automatically I began trying to accommodate my ideas to those of the police , the experts ; trying to find some reason why a man after rabbits should have no gun , not even a piece of wire or string about him . |
| 23 | I arrived last night after a thought-filled journey , rehearsing the words , changing the dialogue , trying to find some sort of padding to soften the blow . |