Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 2 | He told me to try to go to Cookham Wood : in his words , ‘ There 's a better class of prisoner there . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 4 | But what I tried to do with ‘ The Leavetaking ’ is probably impossible in that it 's not psychologically true . |
| 5 | Sandra you got time to sit , sit and do it with him , like I tried to do with Simon or |
| 6 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 7 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 8 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 9 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 10 | that 's what I tried to say to people , that if you want to be an informed parent then you want to know fully who 's doing it , what , you want to know the content , you want |
| 11 | I tried to say to him , Mark I think you 're wasting your time . |
| 12 | I tried to explain to him why I thought they should , just because they should be interested in the security of the United States . |
| 13 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 14 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 15 | I tried to explain to her that few elderly people can remain in a state of reforming fervour all their lives ! |
| 16 | I tried to explain to Drew , but he just sent me off . ’ |
| 17 | I tried to explain to people the real meaning of Dominion status with its opportunity of self-government within a wider membership which would always come to its support . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's a wonderful investment , ’ I tried to explain to anyone who would listen . |
| 19 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 20 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 21 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 22 | ‘ I tried to reason with her after , but she locked herself in the bathroom , crying . |
| 23 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 24 | I tried to reason with them but , in doing so , confessed I was English . |
| 25 | I tried to reason with her that he should know about the baby but she refused to call back or write to him . |
| 26 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 27 | My eyes glued to the beer mat I tried to take in what was being said . |
| 28 | Faldo said : ‘ I tried to go for it and at least I put a scare into the guys out there . |
| 29 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 30 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |