Example sentences of "try [to-vb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to thank them , but I had nothing to give them . |
| 2 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 3 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 4 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 5 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 6 | They say its legally theirs , but the woman who tried to kill them claims she 's the owner . |
| 7 | She ceased to savour them and tried to drive them away . |
| 8 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 9 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 10 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 11 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 12 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 13 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 14 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 15 | But the unit also negotiates with offenders to try to encourage them to compensate their victims . |
| 16 | One of the biggest differences is telemarketing , where a group of specially trained sales people ring doctors and hospitals all day long to try to encourage them to buy Oxford Medical 's products . |
| 17 | Reports such as the Newsom Report ( 1963 ) were concerned to find ways to encourage young people to aspire to better jobs and television programmes tried to encourage them to set their sights higher . |
| 18 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 19 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 20 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 21 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 22 | Perkin tried to pull them apart and got smartly knocked down by Nolan , quick and tough with his fists as with his riding . |
| 23 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 24 | I tried to pull them out but I could n't . |
| 25 | In the early spring we received refugees of Jewish birth from Europe at the City Temple , and tried to find them homes . |
| 26 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 27 | But to many others it is a way of life with roots so deep in the national culture that any government at all respectful of individual liberty would be politically reckless to try to pull them up . |
| 28 | Weeks passed , but still she did n't bother to try to find them . |
| 29 | ‘ Dr Henry is extremely short-sighted and as he bent down to try to find them , he was punched a second time , which caused him to fall back and land on a bench , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 30 | His wife flies out tomorrow to try to find them . |