Example sentences of "try [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 2 | Something within him seemed to collapse but he did n't outwardly fall to pieces or rant or rave or even again try to pull out the arrow or finish me in any other way . |
| 3 | In the shop where you work/a shop you know : a ) Select three products and name two other products displayed near to them ( eg BLEACH — rubber gloves , washing up liquid ) b ) For each group , explain why you think these goods are displayed close together c ) Try to find out the firm 's policy on where goods are displayed and who makes the decision . |
| 4 | Despite this there is a growing market in the sale of personal data , as companies and employers try to find out the details of our personal lives . |
| 5 | If it makes you laugh , try to discover where the pleasure comes from . |
| 6 | As defence-industry consultants try to work out the consequences , some predictions are unchanged . |
| 7 | For example , using a good etymological dictionary , try looking up the origins and spelling changes in words like : ache delight ghost guest health ( and whole , hale ) island thought Changes in place names are particularly interesting , because they demonstrate clearly the way in which spelling does not determine pronunciation , but so often limps along behind . |
| 8 | ( As examples of the latter , try looking up the length of the river Mississippi in as many reference books as you can find , and compare the answers. ) 5 . |
| 9 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 10 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 11 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 12 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 13 | Look , too , at the process by which students are assessed : very rarely do examiners in higher education try to identify explicitly the criteria by which they are going to examine . |
| 14 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 15 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la Uniforum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and hopefully try to clear up the COSE confusion — see back page . |
| 16 | Let us now look at the molecular disk in detail and try to understand why the gas seems to be so different there . |
| 17 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 18 | The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 20 | one department might start ‘ empire building ’ and try to take over the work previously done by another department . |
| 21 | The main stand is a gutted shell and home games have been played at Guisborough while club staff try to thrash out the situation with insurers . |
| 22 | Identify utterances which try to formulate explicitly the upshot of what is being said . |
| 23 | Then there is the linking of several figures within a single contour , especially in the lovely arabesques , fig. 127 and the corresponding trio , sometimes to the distortion of the individual figure : try thinking apart the Centaur and woman at the right of fig. 126 . |
| 24 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 25 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Your mouth goes hard and ugly as you try to choke back the tears , but it is honest . ’ |
| 28 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 29 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 30 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |