Example sentences of "try to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I know what their intentions are , which are to enhance the individual 's life so that collectively we are all enhanced — to try to do stuff out of the mould of the old politics , which the three main parties are dealing with . |
| 3 | It bought a couple of small diagnostic manufacturers to try to do this . |
| 4 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 5 | When Sam died in 1923 aged only fifty-four , Marjorie felt free to try to do what she had always wanted , and auditioned for the Tillers : |
| 6 | Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less . |
| 7 | We did n't go in to try to do a hit record , just a documentary , homecoming get-together with a bunch of friends . |
| 8 | This was what and Peters decided to try to do . |
| 9 | Contestants will join him in the arena to try to do a Tyrus — and bring on the tears again . |
| 10 | ‘ Tony Stewart , Phil McNeill and Neil Spencer used to run the NME and Cynthia Rose used to try to do the serious side of it . |
| 11 | To gain a clearer understanding of the differences between such schools of thought , and thus to see what the opposition between holism and individualism consists in , it is therefore essential to try to do something that the protagonists in such debates themselves seem unwilling to attempt ; to give a more precise account of the conflicting conceptions of individuals and their capacities that underlie these disagreements . |
| 12 | Treating people as if they were not people is not a possibility ; to try to do so requires all the resources of evil which the human mind can muster , but it always breaks down . |
| 13 | It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it . |
| 14 | We 're going to try to do that anyway . |
| 15 | If corporate diversification were relevant , it might be a good idea to try to do this , but corporate strategic portfolio analysis does not consider it . |
| 16 | I would not presume to try to do your job . |
| 17 | Probably it had been foolish to try to do so . |
| 18 | Rebecca believed that Lissa could bring about her downfall , and she was almost bound to try to do something about it . |
| 19 | The answer to the first problem is obviously to try to do something about your domestic traffic problems . |
| 20 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 21 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 22 | Putting out a hand to pick up her brush , intending to try to do something about her limp blonde hair , Laura gave a yelp of dismay as she caught sight of the time on her wrist-watch . |
| 23 | You 'll have to try to do it . |
| 24 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 25 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 26 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 27 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 28 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 29 | To be fair , she was a good-hearted woman who tried to do her best . |
| 30 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |