Example sentences of "you try [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you try to turn the argument about attacks on individuals . |
| 2 | However , when you try to stop the model in that position , the whole situation seems to suddenly change and things can rapidly reach a point of total confusion . |
| 3 | If you try to exceed the limit for the filing system , you will get a " No room " error . |
| 4 | If you try to move the carriage too lightly or too quickly you might not transfer the stitches firmly enough . |
| 5 | I find it shameful that you try to promote the measure which does n't even begin to address the basic problem of housing . |
| 6 | Maybe I was n't fully asleep — you know that half-waking state where you try to control the direction of your dream ? |
| 7 | The idea that you you you look at people and you try to calculate the way in which they work , and and and how their behaviour and how their relationships affect other people I think we display a degree of not knowing very much about that , do n't we ? |
| 8 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 9 | You do n't just say , ‘ Give me a hand in this campaign for everyone to put out their dustbins ’ You try to get the mayor to do it , or Princess Diana to do it , or a hundred-year-old lady , in the district or Rumanian orphans . |
| 10 | If you try to pitch the ball onto the top , particularly working from a tight lie , you will find it almost impossible to pull the ball up quickly enough . |
| 11 | Identify the rut , and before you try to find the way out of it convince yourself you will get out of it . |
| 12 | I suppose it helps both , does n't it , really , because if you 're trying to catch the teacher out , that means you 've got to know your lesson pretty well , because otherwise if you try to catch the teacher out and yet you 've been proved wrong , you 've had it really . |
| 13 | There is a danger that in getting angry with yourself , you try to make the learning happen rather than allowing it to happen . |
| 14 | In other words , the more accurately you try to measure the position of the particle , the less accurately you can measure its speed , and vice versa . |
| 15 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 16 | This will only become apparent when you try to develop the board , because it will be impossible to remove all of the unwanted resit coating . |
| 17 | Beyond the Leonardo monument and the row of yellow taxis , each with a driver whose disregard for your safety if you try to cross the road in front of them is as remarkable as any of da Vinci 's theories , is La Scala . |