Example sentences of "[noun pl] try [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shami Hoad , a heating engineer , from Gloucester is in hospital in the city , his arm broken in three places when bailiffs tried to take his wife 's £8,000 car to pay a £45 parking fine . |
| 2 | Her mother Ellen has gathered 35,000 signatures to try to block his parole . |
| 3 | He saw Amaranth pinned in a corner by a tiny man who was waving a piece of paper under her nose , while a bevy of journalists tried to attract her attention . |
| 4 | Her slim body shakes with electric shocks as paramedics try to restart her heart . |
| 5 | His right eyebrow is raised questioningly and his eyes try to hide his anxiety . |
| 6 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 7 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 8 | Halifax are pulling out all the stops to try to strengthen their squad and want a sponsor to help fund a deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 9 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 10 | Many developing countries try to liberalise their trade regimes by revising their policies of intervention and by reducing or eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers . |
| 11 | Inter-generational rows are often about power : parents trying to retain their control even when their children are grown . |
| 12 | They were accused of threatening MPs , bullying one to such an extent he was reduced to tears , and bringing pressure to bear on constituency officials to try to persuade their man to change his mind . |
| 13 | The South Eastern Board , for example , generally refused to subsidise rural connections ( charging the full cost to new rural consumers ) , and other Boards tried to minimise their commitment . |
| 14 | The Yom Kippur War , and the oil crisis put paid to that as western governments tried to buy their way out of recession by borrowing heavily . |
| 15 | This makes it difficult to offer a succinct exegetical account of Habermas 's work but I shall pursue three problems to try to present his contribution to the theory of ideology : the problem of epistemology , the problem of ideology and the problem of communication . |
| 16 | Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands . |
| 17 | Most of the time , therefore , managers try to make their use of power less obvious , more rational and more legitimate by sharing their expectations with others . |
| 18 | Top managers try to win their loyalty , and co-opt their organizations to the firm 's ideals … ideologically . |
| 19 | The rest of the youngsters were having problems trying to contain their laughter . |
| 20 | Managers trying to buy their company still have a fiduciary duty to shareholders . |
| 21 | Perhaps there was a … he racked his brains trying to remember what sort of accommodation forests traditionally offered … perhaps there was a gingerbread house or something ? |
| 22 | People trying to comprehend the field reviewed here have exactly the same problems in information overload as executives trying to comprehend their enterprise 's environment ! |
| 23 | SCOTVEC is taking an active role in discussions with a variety of funding bodies to try to secure their commitment to general SVQs and Skillstart . |
| 24 | There are worse ways to try to rebuild his support among Latino voters . |
| 25 | He was in intensive care in Maidstone Hospital last night as surgeons tried to save his arm . |
| 26 | As Bobby Lavender talked and his relations tried to eat their lunch , a police helicopter hovered , its rotor blades occasionally too loud for us to hear each other . |
| 27 | Burglars tried to force their way into a house in Northallerton . |
| 28 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 29 | JIANG ZEMIN , General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , warned in a speech in Tokyo yesterday against a possible revival of Japanese militarism , as Chinese pro-democracy demonstrators tried to disrupt his address . |
| 30 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |