Example sentences of "try [to-vb] this [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 2 | Let me try to illustrate this from the career of one notable Christian . |
| 3 | This is the situation their digestive system has evolved to cope with , and we should try to approximate this in the aquarium if possible . |
| 4 | If you have any choice in the matter , try to do this on the south-facing side , and as the bud will grow out to the south , rows should lie east-west , so that the shoots grow out into the row space , and not into each other . |
| 5 | As a first attempt we have tried to calculate this from the mean letter width for a particular writer , which can be obtained from the raw x-coordinate data for the script at training time . |
| 6 | Well surely we 're trying to do this in the way of neighbourhood watch |
| 7 | Mum looks momentarily surprised ; I think she 's trying to integrate this with the plot of Happy bloody Families . |
| 8 | However I am satisfied that the MoD is not trying to brush this under the carpet . ’ |