Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to restore my word processor program and the hundred or so files , but after restoring the first disk , the program stopped , giving the error message , ‘ Unable to find path ’ . |
| 2 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 3 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 4 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 5 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 6 | FORMER cricket star Geoffrey Boycott collared a thief who tried to nick his £1,000 golf clubs from the luggage rack of an InterCity train . |
| 7 | Colin and Dawn fell in love when Dawn tried to help them patch things up . |
| 8 | You think I tried to steal your family heirlooms , do n't you ? |
| 9 | An eighty four year old man has foiled a mugger who tried to steal his pension book . |
| 10 | When I was a schoolboy in Cornwall , helping with the milk round , I tried to augment my pocket money by scraping laver bread off the rocks . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , she tried to keep her voice cool . |
| 12 | Mary tried to keep her voice calm as she replied . |
| 13 | She tried to keep her voice calm . |
| 14 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 15 | I tried to keep my tone light . |
| 16 | He tried to keep his voice firm , but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him . |
| 17 | He tried to keep his voice level . |
| 18 | Pascoe tried to keep his voice light . |
| 19 | But when they tried to call their ambulance depot at Mayfield , the radio reception was so poor one of the men had to dash to a phone box . |
| 20 | The review of services wo n't be complete until Novemeber , but already the people of Banbury are talking about organising a protest march to try to save their hospital services . |
| 21 | In the case of the Single Currency , the weak country is forced into similar deflationary policies in order to try to depress its unit costs so as to enable it to compete against the strong countries . |
| 22 | He pointed out that 45 players who had competed in the English Amateur Stroke-Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy the two previous years had turned professional and tried to get their tournament players ' cards in the Algarve . |
| 23 | Tried to get his cantilever front legs |
| 24 | He tried to get his battery razor to work but the batteries had leaked and gone all green . |
| 25 | The basic unit of credit is the module and in order to try to standardize its credit value across the many subjects and disciplines of the Modular Course it is defined in terms of notional student effort . |
| 26 | Mr Letts tried to block their escape route and was mown down . |
| 27 | Faculty chairman Peter Wyman told ACCOUNTANCY : ‘ We are very concerned that the Revenue has started to use some of the anti-avoidance legislation to stop people doing what they might legitimately do to try to minimise their ACT problem . ’ |
| 28 | On 13 September 1979 , a group of market women met to form an association in order to call a halt to the corrupt practices of the market administration and police and to try to improve their working conditions . |
| 29 | Newcomen came up against Savery 's work when he tried to exploit his steam engines . |
| 30 | 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 . |