Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [det] sense [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of these questions was to try to get some sense of the spaces occupied by each discipline , how well that space was defined , and to what extent disciplinary identity or integrity was a matter of epistemological structure ( unifying theories , concepts , methods , etc. ) or a more elusive matter of disciplinary ‘ culture ’ , involving academic norms , ethos or styles . |
| 2 | Lowell , too emotionally mind-blown to try to make any sense of the first part of the letter , was immediately thrust into action by the second paragraph . |
| 3 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 4 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 5 | He stared at those closest him , trying to make some sense of the complex chains of symbols , then shrugged ; it was an alien language , all this , yet he had a sense that these shapes — the spirals and branching trees , the clusters and irregular pyramids-had something to do with the complex chemistry of the human body . |