Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecilia tried to gather together some dignity . |
| 2 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 3 | Surgeons battled in vain for ten hours to try to save the 32-year-old National Clubman 's 250cc champion from Syston , Leics . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 5 | In New York the Dow Jones Index tried to regain some of yesterday 's lost ground , at at four thirty stood up two point seven two points at two four five five point six nine . |
| 6 | Sophie tried to read meaning into the noise . |
| 7 | A few minutes later , installed in the office , a small room looking out on to the quarantine quarters , Sophie tried to find a topic of conversation that would keep things on a professional basis . |
| 8 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 9 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 10 | Opponents tried to block the proposal when evidence was unearthed that an ancient village could lie beneath the original site earmarked for the jail . |
| 11 | Opponents tried to block the proposal when evidence was unearthed that an ancient village could lie beneath the original site earmarked for the jail . |
| 12 | Kinnear tried to talk to Graham Taylor yesterday to push the claims of Robbie Earle and Warren Barton . |
| 13 | Two of the northern lords who had supported the revolution , Henry Beaumont and Wake of Liddel , were well rewarded , and Mortimer tried to buttress his position in Ireland by conferring the earldom of Ormond on the leading Anglo-Irish magnate of Munster , James Butler . |
| 14 | Following the advice , the British runner tried to make all the running . |
| 15 | It is my responsibility to try to include something for everyone . |
| 16 | ‘ I think , more than that , we have a responsibility to try to help youngsters themselves feel that they are valued . |
| 17 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 19 | Swindon tried to play their game but in the first half did n't have much joy … |
| 20 | If the drugs do not appear in the stool as planned , or if symptoms of intoxication develop , the smuggler may present to a casualty department , fearing a package has burst , fabricating a story to try to avoid criminal proceedings . |
| 21 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 22 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 23 | By choosing to go northwards , she was walking directly into the driving wind but she pressed on , bent low over the walking stick to try to protect her face . |
| 24 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 25 | Me and Phil , the roadie , even went on this midnight jaunt from Manchester to Guildford to try to steal the master tapes of the LP . |
| 26 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 27 | The pound plunged to a record low against the mark yesterday in the wake of a row over a document revealing how Germany tried to prop sterling . |
| 28 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 29 | Kelly tried to put the self-doubt from her mind . |
| 30 | Kelly tried to smile gamely . |