Example sentences of "try [verb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we take a tuck or slip stitch card and try knitting it with a changes of colour , we do n't usually know what the result will be . |
| 2 | Clematis are also a good choice — try growing them with a rose to extend the period of interest , but make sure neither is too vigorous a grower . |
| 3 | When the navvies turn up for their wages on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of digging up roads , try presenting them with a handsome bound volume of Gaelic poetry . |
| 4 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 5 | If it is out , try relighting it with a match , so long as there is no strong smell of gas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |