Example sentences of "try make " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried making friends with other women who had children , exploring ways of shared childcare ; but faith was not enough , they were bogged down by impossible travel arrangements , endless irresponsibility and hopeless public transport . |
| 2 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 3 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 4 | My father tried making me a wooden train , but that did n't satisfy me , as I wanted something that worked . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd quite like to try making my own dye , ’ said Betty . |
| 6 | ‘ In these sculptures I tried to make an eye . |
| 7 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 8 | The Austrian Ambassador tried to make peace . |
| 9 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 10 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 11 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 12 | But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it , |
| 13 | Thus the last British Governor , Sir Andrew Cohen , favoured in 1952 the approach which Milton Obote tried to make work after 1966 : |
| 14 | A few tried to make even their skin as inconspicuous as possible as white as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 16 | Betjeman always loathed Lewis thereafter , though as they got older they both tried to make a bit of a joke about it . |
| 17 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 18 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 19 | Someone tried to make a golf course in the water meadows ; another tried to run it as a pub , and put close-fitting carpets over the flags . |
| 20 | In the days that followed , the government tried to make things clearer . |
| 21 | But any residents of Tokyo who tried to make a last-minute airline booking were probably disappointed . |
| 22 | He tried to make small talk but got no replies . |
| 23 | ‘ He tried to make conversation but I just smiled and went on reading my book . ’ |
| 24 | He tried to make his voice gentle so that he did n't antagonize her . |
| 25 | Dinner was nearly over and the ladies about to leave the room , when Charity in a low urgent aside , tried to make Charles give some impression of a man worthy of consideration . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 27 | Soper was firmly in the tradition of those liberals who tried to make the Christian gospel more acceptable to ‘ modern man ’ by explaining away the supernatural and miraculous elements . |
| 28 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 29 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 30 | Sam tried to make eye contact but failed . |