Example sentences of "and try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if I treat someone 's urgent need of money solely as an opportunity to buy cheap from him , you may well doubt whether I am aware of more than the fact that he is in trouble , and try to rouse me from my callousness : ‘ How would you feel if I did that to you ? ’ |
| 2 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 3 | At last , in a fit of anger , he gave John permission to invade the duchy and try to take it by force . |
| 4 | Take a stroll around the grounds and through the buildings and try to put yourself in their position . |
| 5 | ‘ And , later on , will you be a domineering husband and try to turn me into a docile , obedient wife ? ’ |
| 6 | They will work on the weakest MPs , and try to force them into line . |
| 7 | ‘ They will work on the weakest , and try to force them into line . ’ |
| 8 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 9 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 10 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 11 | Well also just my experience , my own experience with the developments of and the evolution of the policies in Kuwait coming at working at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research , there were many erm studies conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the other institute , The Social erm Political Institute , and they were the main of that was the probe through all these policies and through these institutions we have in Kuwait and try to improve it to a standard that the Kuwaiti people and the neighbouring country can benefit from at that . |
| 12 | For instance , young and untrained sheepdogs will often spontaneously run round to the other side of a flock of sheep and try to drive them towards the shepherd . |
| 13 | One dog may then try to get between the herd and the straggler , and try to drive it towards the rest of the pack . |
| 14 | The examination of the techniques that humans employ when reading and try to incorporate them into a computational system is therefore worthwhile . |
| 15 | ‘ It is only if you pretend and try to sweep it under the carpet that you get a bigoted response , ’ Mr Purton added after the vote . |
| 16 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 17 | Take the cards in turn and try to think them into the matter for negotiation . |
| 18 | All she could do was twine her arms round him and try to anchor him by her weight against the still-shuddering rubble , so that at least their backs were protected . |
| 19 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 20 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 21 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 22 | You think of the glow of pride that still lingers from your last HVS triumph with embarrassment and try to console yourself with the mitigating circumstances of age , heavy work responsibilities , duty to family , your back problem … |
| 23 | It is out of this divided and constrained perspective that we have developed the materialistic theory of evolution and try to fit everything into the confines of such a bleak and narrow view . |
| 24 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 25 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |
| 26 | If the book wins , it will control the character and try to deliver itself to a powerful follower of Slaanesh . |
| 27 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 28 | Suddenly he 'd arch his back like a twig in a furnace , scraping his stockinged feet for purchase , then take his head in both hands and try to smash it on the floor , only prevented by the cushions . |
| 29 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 30 | Somehow you have to play devil 's advocate against your presentation and try to knock it to pieces . |