Example sentences of "try to bring [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 2 | Then they tried to bring in the general . ’ |
| 3 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 4 | By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country . |
| 5 | A deconstructive reading tries to bring out the logic of the text 's language as opposed to the logic of its author 's claims . |
| 6 | Sarah Kent 's introduction tries to bring in the fall of Communism , which is probably pushing it a bit . |
| 7 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 8 | She had enough on her hands trying to bring up the boys , and the simplest expedient would be to get the little girl down to Frome , where her deceased husband 's sister and brother-in-law , William and Sarah Chinnock , could provide her with a decent upbringing . |
| 9 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |