Example sentences of "[adv] try [verb] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents should not try to monopolize their teenagers , with however good a motive . |
| 2 | For a large cichlid they must be classed as unaggressive and certainly they do not try to rearrange their surroundings . |
| 3 | This created something of a diplomatic flurry between London and Washington , as the Americans sought assurances that the British were not trying to sabotage their plans . |
| 4 | When government delegates meet every two years to decide which species to add to or delete from the appendices , the scene is set for a battle between non-governmental conservation organisations , such as the World Wildlife Fund , and representatives of the pet industry and the fur trade , with both factions desperately trying to sell their points of view . |
| 5 | Nastiest : Barbara Ellen 's comments in the gossip column about The La 's and The Farm desperately trying to convince their mothers they did the right thing in not aborting them |
| 6 | Some people deliberately try to programme their children . |
| 7 | These children have deliberately tried to hurt their brothers and sisters with knives , pushing them out of windows or down stairs ( Rosenthal and Doherty 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The business men and boffins here have made money moving people from A to B across the globe , but very few of the governments they 've advised have ever tried to privatize their railways , and none have tried in quite the manner Mr MacGregor proposes . |
| 9 | ‘ Looking after your oil is paramount — the oil companies are always trying to educate their customers . |
| 10 | Physicists are still trying to explore their implications and to fit them together . |
| 11 | When they 're not debating matters of national and international importance , MPs also try to help their constituents , or indeed , anyone else with a problem . |
| 12 | Pension funds and other institutional investors are also trying to change their ways . |
| 13 | We 're talking about two powerful organisations , both trying to keep their privileges intact . |
| 14 | Syria still likes to portray itself as the sworn enemy of the Israelis , but the Ba'ath Party officials who rule with an iron hand appear to have given up trying to stop their citizens tuning in to the ‘ Zionists ’ wavelength . |
| 15 | I have really almost given up trying to discuss their poems , and just talk about poetry . |
| 16 | She and her husband Edward will now try to ensure their grandchildren have as good a Christmas as possible at their home in Corsham , Wilts . |
| 17 | Both Dragoons had galloped past Sharpe and were now trying to turn their horses for a second attack . |
| 18 | They are always hitching up underpants , scratching away happily at unspeakable things in their breeches and , with one finger , boldly trying to free their underpants that have become lodged somewhere dark and irretrievable that we can only guess at . |
| 19 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 20 | Other landlords are n't trying to tell their tenants what to do . |