Example sentences of "try for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 2 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 3 | Freya was facing the wrong way in the womb but her mother says she was n't allowed even to try for a natural birth . |
| 4 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 5 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 6 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 7 | She tried for a neutral tone . |
| 8 | Two days passed , and on Sunday , 16 December , the schooner tried for a second time to get to Fort Davey but was forced back . |
| 9 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 10 | Alec Stewart ran himself out as he tried for a sharp single to cover and found Atherton unwilling to budge at the non-striker 's end . |
| 11 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 12 | She tried for a brighter smile . |
| 13 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 14 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough 's new style pairings , tried for the first time against Sheffield last week , gave greater strength in depth , and Knott has named an unchanged team . |
| 16 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 17 | When he came back , he tried for the Anglican priesthood and was rejected . ’ |
| 18 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 19 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , you could try for the Long Range Weather Forecasting Agency ( bring your own piece of seaweed ) or the World Bank in Washington , but the growth industries of tax-free living must be in Europe . |
| 21 | Otherwise , and particularly if she lived in Edinburgh , she could answer one of the advertisements for a housemaid ; or she might , increasingly as the century wore on , try for a coveted job as shop assistant ; she might enter one of the monotonous and repetitive unskilled industrial jobs in say paper-bag making ; or use her school training in needlework to become a dressmaker . |
| 22 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 23 | you know try for a better underst total understanding of |
| 24 | No laughs from this move in which Gloucester should have had a penalty try for a deliberate knock on . |
| 25 | To complete the sequence , try for a few close-ups of the coloured light reflecting in the children 's faces , after which a fade to black would bring the sequence to an appropriate close . |
| 26 | Evans , captain for the ninth time on his 32nd appearance , enjoys recalling the moment he scored the Test series-clinching try for the 1989 British Lions Down Under . |
| 27 | ‘ Try for the older girl , the other woman , the one who gets ditched … ’ |
| 28 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 29 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 30 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |