Example sentences of "some have try " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality was that few had attained that ambition though some had tried . |
| 2 | Some had tried but the general feeling was that she was n't one of us . |
| 3 | Some have tried to get round this problem by constructing small scale models of the world that they really want to study , simulating wars , prison situations and so on . |
| 4 | Now that relations have improved , some have tried to explain away this usage as being a play on the French ‘ angle ’ , which supposedly sounds like ‘ anglais ’ . |
| 5 | It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity ( though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf ) . |
| 6 | Some have tried to appear natural by mixing these chemicals with plant extracts . |
| 7 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 8 | As one can not induce inspiration ( some have tried in vain , using drugs or alcohol ) , all we can do here is write about the 99% of work and skill which forms the other part of melody writing . |