Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 2 | It is important to try to preserve some of the old pedestrian routes through the new precinct . |
| 3 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 4 | erm We tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial . |
| 5 | The 1982 reorganisation tried to simplify some of the worst complexities of 1974 by pruning the consultative machinery , abolishing the area tiers , simplifying the planning machinery and advocating greater devolution of decision-making to units of management at the level of hospitals and community services . |
| 6 | The Mexicans , under General Santa Anna , tried to retake some of the land that the newcomers had taken over . |
| 7 | Robyn swallowed , tried to regain some of the antagonism , but his eyes , unfathomable and hypnotic , made her tremble , made her feel time had stood still . |
| 8 | Can the Minister say whether the Government will agree to a Europewide eco-labelling scheme , to try to eliminate some of the misleading claims that are made on behalf of some products , which prejudice products that are environmentally safe ? |
| 9 | The fuzzy tolerance of 25 mapunits was chosen to try to eliminate these from the final coverage . |
| 10 | The second stage is to see what conclusions you can draw from the facts : in other words , to try to fit these into a pattern that makes sense . |
| 11 | And to help us to try to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls to be avoided . |
| 12 | Such technology once in place may signal a new era of competition : for example , it might allow the Chicago exchanges to try to wrest some of the specifically European interest rate and index derivatives away from the Europeans . |
| 13 | Faced with the pressure resulting from those disasters , we know that the Government have begun to try to undo some of the damage . |
| 14 | In this section I have attempted a preliminary outline of a definition of modernism , and tried to draw some of the connections in the generic relationship between modernism and the bourgeoisie . |
| 15 | Despite Dustin 's worries over the script-'I learned not to try to build more of a character than the text can support' — his performance is one of threads and patches , full of actorish tics and attempts at pathos . |
| 16 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 17 | He quickly tried to shift some of the blame . |
| 18 | We left the smell of the pub behind , and I tried to get some of the fresh air through my head . |
| 19 | I tried to get some of the Blu-Tak off . |
| 20 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 21 | Perhaps the best way of explaining about legal study is to try to remove some of the misconceptions which have grown up around it . |
| 22 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 23 | I tried to explain that to the Sister . |
| 24 | Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 . |
| 25 | In this chapter , I would like to try to explain some of the laws and customs of my people , particularly with regard to women and marriage , and dispel some of the myths and fairy stories which had totally misled me . |
| 26 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 27 | And I think that instead of sitting round and bitching about them , which you can do , it 's better to try to take more of an interest and make interesting videos , because if you 're a creative person I think you can make creative videos . ’ |
| 28 | When reconnaissance shows that there is a large herd of elephants with young calves close to camp it is often decided to try to capture some of the young elephants first by means of mela shikar . |
| 29 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |