Example sentences of "[verb] not try " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third was big and light , contained a cupboard , a chest of drawers and twin beds which Sara did not try . |
| 2 | Their bachelor predecessor had no such eye and did not try to change it . |
| 3 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 4 | She did not try to defend herself . |
| 5 | She did not try to answer or to turn it aside . |
| 6 | She could not — and did not try to — hide the triumph in her voice at being thus vindicated . |
| 7 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |
| 8 | Last year the president was killed by rebels whom the Americans did not try to stop . |
| 9 | I also thought that our style did not try hard enough to persuade or unite . |
| 10 | She did come top , though she did not try and hoped she would n't . |
| 11 | At first , the Americans did not try too hard to meet the Iranians on this uncomfortable holy turf . |
| 12 | Throughout its history , the Auld Alliance had worked best when French and Scots did not try to live together , and particularly when the French kept out of Scotland . |
| 13 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 14 | She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets . |
| 15 | What he did decide , and June did not try to dissuade him , was that he would not go back to school . |
| 16 | She could not , and did not try to , riddle out , rationally order , explain , least of all banish , these horrible consolations . |
| 17 | As for Irina , Franca could not , and did not try to , make her out , but got on with her perfectly well . |
| 18 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 19 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 20 | Most of the work was done by the slaves who , provided they did not try to escape , were often reasonably treated although their quarters were cramped and poorly finished . |
| 21 | She did not try , this time , to keep her voice steady . |
| 22 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 23 | It was then that the lump in her throat would break and spill the tears from her eyes and cause her to make choking sounds which she did not try to prevent , knowing they would not penetrate Mrs Aggie 's deep snoring . |
| 24 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 25 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 26 | The United States had a strong direct interest in seeing that Britain did not try to solve its payments problems [ in ways which ] would have added to the burden on the United States . |
| 27 | When the war was lost , even the hotheads did not try to sabotage the peace . |
| 28 | A pistol was in his bedside cabinet , but he did not try to reach for it . |
| 29 | The campaign never took place , however , and Edward did not try to revive this method of payment for those who served in the army which was defeated at Bannockburn . |
| 30 | This time the aggravated totter did not try to stop it . |