Example sentences of "[pers pn] try to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 2 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 3 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 4 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to do things too quickly and ended up feeling unwell for much of the time . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to do far too much last year . |
| 7 | I tried to do my country proud but they have n't done the same by me . |
| 8 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 9 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 10 | But what I tried to do with ‘ The Leavetaking ’ is probably impossible in that it 's not psychologically true . |
| 11 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 12 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 13 | People would look at me and think , ‘ No , she 's not the type , she would never try to top herself ’ , but I tried to do it when I was in Cookham Wood . |
| 14 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 15 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 16 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 17 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 18 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 19 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 20 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 21 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 22 | What I tried to do was one of those |
| 23 | Sandra you got time to sit , sit and do it with him , like I tried to do with Simon or |
| 24 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 25 | And , more seriously : ‘ I try to do things the way she wants . |
| 26 | Each week I try to do at least three duties , and Friday 30 June was my third that week . |
| 27 | What I try to do in this book is to show that faith is reasonable . |
| 28 | ‘ I try to do that as much as I can , without getting ridiculously cosmic about it . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact , all the playing that I do , the fingering and the fast stuff that I try to do , does n't turn me on half as much as the accidental feedbacks and things that happen with the more experimental side of my guitar playing . |
| 30 | I overwork , I know that , and I try to do too much sometimes . |