Example sentences of "[pron] try [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to answer and explain our ways , but it was difficult . |
| 2 | How many times have you heard somebody trying to convince and influence you on something , and they 're using negative words . |
| 3 | Here , that same evening , he was visited by the Young King , who tried to explain and excuse what had happened . |
| 4 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 5 | Sometimes they can be given a lump of clay that is too heavy for them to lift and they will gain new experiences as they try to mould or divide it into pieces of a manageable size . |
| 6 | Many more estimations will be made — rightly or wrongly — by the children as they try to push and pull their prams and trolleys through narrow spaces . |
| 7 | He tried to calm and reassure her . |
| 8 | Cramped on the ground he tried to stretch and found his arms bound behind his back and his feet shackled in iron chains . |
| 9 | Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time . |