Example sentences of "try [verb] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 2 | Rubbing a weary hand over her face , she tried to estimate how long she had slept . |
| 3 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 4 | In writing this book , it has been my intention to try to see how war , over a period of 150 years or so , affected developments and changes in two of Europe 's leading societies , those of France and England . |
| 5 | was to try to see how things could be reduced and enlarged . |
| 6 | Because each spin may be slightly different , it is important not to try to guess how far to move forwards . |
| 7 | We tell Nat to stay where he is , brushing the snow from his bag to try to minimize how wet it will be . |
| 8 | It seems that he died after drinking brandy which had been laced with strychnine and we have to try to discover how the poison got into the brandy . ’ |
| 9 | It seems important , therefore , to try to establish how the decision to fight the election came about . |
| 10 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 11 | Tried to remember how he was supposed to feel . |
| 12 | Richard tried to remember how much he 'd liked Simon . |
| 13 | Sandison tried to gauge how many he had already had but was unsure . |
| 14 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 15 | Jaq tried to imagine how Googol viewed him . |
| 16 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 17 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to imagine how the world had been created , and I imagined Sooty — you know ; the glove puppet — ’ |
| 19 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |
| 20 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 21 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 22 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 23 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 24 | One way of defining the middle classes is to try to understand how they kept themselves morally distinct from the lower orders . |
| 25 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , if we are to try to understand how the Universe works , we should pay as much attention to its death as to its birth . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there must be some feature which distinguishes the production of knowledge from that of political slogans , for example ; and we have to try to understand how the real object is transformed into the thought object . |
| 28 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 29 | In order to discover how such inferences are made , we will need firstly to examine the range of possible functions of language , and secondly to try to understand how people correctly interpret them . |
| 30 | The study will also collect data from a small sample of next of kin of those who have died or entered residential care to try to understand how these events affected the network and how family and friends cope with crises . |