Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here . |
| 2 | Though I do n't live there any more , I still regard the South Bronx as my community and I want to try to give something back . |
| 3 | I want to try to clear away the distinction between two kinds of text , the " literary " ( or poetic ) and the " non- literary " , as regards the function of context . |
| 4 | In Part Two I want to try to develop some of this potential and outline a ‘ postclassical ’ perspective : that is , a perspective grounded on the fundamental assumptions made by Beccaria , but with some liberties taken and adjustments made in the light of the various problems it has encountered . |
| 5 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 6 | But really I want to try to slip past them . |
| 7 | The last seamstress I used tried to commit suicide twice and I do n't think my designs are that depressing ! |
| 8 | ‘ I stopped trying to win and just thought about making enough money to stay ahead of everybody else . |
| 9 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 10 | If I 'd tried to run for it . |
| 11 | I 'd tried to safeguard myself by worming my way into her heart and confidences . |
| 12 | If I 'd tried to walk out along the trail , I would have met Perkin face to face . |
| 13 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 14 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 15 | I 'd tried to help him before . |
| 16 | Automatically I began trying to accommodate my ideas to those of the police , the experts ; trying to find some reason why a man after rabbits should have no gun , not even a piece of wire or string about him . |
| 17 | When I read about your father in the newspapers at the time , I began trying to find out things . |
| 18 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 19 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 20 | I try to keep one step ahead of the rest of the staff , making sure that there 's a continuity of work for them , and I like to try to mix their work as much as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ If you knew how bored I get trying to answer that same question … ’ |
| 22 | I remember trying to hold the umbrella against the rain and the wind was gusting over 40 miles per hour . |
| 23 | I remember trying to think of all the troops who would line up behind me , and realizing that there was only Anne . |
| 24 | I remember trying to make sense out of these ghostly darting signs that overlaid the story of the film , which most of the time I could n't follow . |
| 25 | I remember trying to help one of the sisters dress a badly wounded back — something I had never thought I could do . |
| 26 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
| 27 | Should I have tried to go home this year ? wondered Pascoe guiltily . |
| 28 | After they did this four more times I decided to try to outdo them , and got a sheet of glass ready . |
| 29 | A further area I decided to try to improve was the semi-submerged filter beyond the trickle chamber . |
| 30 | Prior to losing the mollies ( male and female ) a number of young were produced and since I also only have one tank , I decided to try to save them by suspending a net breeding trap in the tank and transferring them to it . |