Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] try [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the men and women who give up trying to strengthen their weak areas because they are informed that the conjunction of the planets at the time of their births will not allow them to do so . |
| 2 | For a large cichlid they must be classed as unaggressive and certainly they do not try to rearrange their surroundings . |
| 3 | The local authorities often fight hard to try to protect their independence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |