Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 2 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't try to change that answer later , ’ said Mr Jaggers . |
| 4 | In these circumstances schools may try to recruit and retain only those pupils whose performance is expected to improve the school 's position in the league tables . |
| 5 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |