Example sentences of "if you try [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poet Emerson expressed the difficulty in remembering dreams most eloquently : Dreams are jealous of being remembered ; they dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them . |
| 2 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 3 | If you try to do it all in one go , you will almost always be dissatisfied with the result . |
| 4 | We 're sure that having come this far you wo n't want to miss out on anything and we really do recommend you join us on these trips as it can be very expensive if you try to do it all on your own . |
| 5 | If you try to do it you will bulldoze the House and eventually the Members will revolt . ’ |
| 6 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 7 | Flowers are very brittle once pressed and if you try to touch them with your fingers they will be completely ruined , no matter how careful you are . |
| 8 | One of the problems with humour is you 've got to make an immediate impact sometimes if you try to analyse it into too much detail , it spoils it . |
| 9 | Griffin quotes Lewis as saying , in a letter written to his father in March 1928 , ‘ If you try to suppress it , you only make martyrs . ’ |
| 10 | She will carry them around with her , and is likely to prove aggressive if you try to take them away during this phase . |
| 11 | Okay if you try to take you 've still got three to come |
| 12 | And I 'm giving you this ultimatum : tomorrow night I come into this bed and if you try to stop me , you 'll end up next door for the remainder of your days . ’ |
| 13 | If you try to push them under a place to see if it 's touching , you 'll find they get bent up and once there 's a bend in you ca n't smooth it . |
| 14 | I got no , I 've got no innate ability and if you try to teach me , would it be any use ? just a stupid example . |
| 15 | Arabs , he added , ‘ react against you if you try to drive them … but you can lead them without force anywhere , if nominally arm in arm ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 17 | If you try to help him , you will die too . ’ |
| 18 | If you try to learn it all , the sport will seem very complex . |
| 19 | It is dangerous if you try to separate them … |
| 20 | ‘ They 're lethal if you try to eat them as they are . ’ |
| 21 | Not only will this make the boat difficult to steer but if you try doing it too far , you 'll start sailing straight under water . |
| 22 | Experiment with the fractions ⅔ , ⅙ , 1/7 , and see what happens if you try to change them into decimals . |
| 23 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |