Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I tried to write everything down in my notebook . |
| 2 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |
| 3 | ‘ This morning , ’ Matilda said , ‘ just for fun I tried to push something over with my eyes and I could n't do it . |
| 4 | In turn , we should n't try to take anything away from Allan for that night ; he ran really well , a true champion 's performance . |
| 5 | Come on , Terry , even you ca n't be so desperate for a story that you 'd try to make something out of last night 's little mishap ! |
| 6 | I 've had people try to put one over on me many times , and let me tell you , gentlemen , few people succeed . |
| 7 | " But why should we endure the hell of life in the colonies , mon vieux , if we do n't enjoy ourselves a little and try to put something by for our old age at the same time , heh ? " |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't play those games — but I should tell you here and now that I 'll make you regret it if ever you try to involve anyone else in this , ’ he warned her silkily , his grey eyes suddenly steely and intent . |
| 9 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 10 | If you 're trying to catch somebody immediately after a crime , you grab every man you can and smother the area . |
| 11 | They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it . |
| 12 | These days it was hard enough trying to hold everything together without all that . |
| 13 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's why I 'm trying to get someone else to . ’ |
| 15 | Trying to root one subfamily of glutamate dehydrogenase harbouring representatives of the three domains of life , using the paralogous subfamily as an outgroup , we obtained different roots according to the method of tree construction used . |
| 16 | ‘ I think he was sceptical about our story but has accepted that it would be a waste of time trying to make anything out of it now . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We are trying to bring everything up to date , ’ says Mr Lawrence , ‘ the way we sell , who we sell through , what we sell , the emphasis of core values all the way through to transparency of financial reporting . ’ |
| 18 | So we 're trying to bring everyone up to a certain level in certain selected topics — aspects of mechanics , heat , wave motion . |
| 19 | Now Tabitha sat on the bunk , trying to stuff everything back into the bag . |