Example sentences of "you try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's cruel of you to try to force me into this family . |
| 2 | Everything conspires to whisk you back into the past , including the statue of a fierce bearded mercenary leaning on his shield and grasping his pike firmly as though challenging you to try to take it from him . |
| 3 | We wish to know only who paid you to try to kill this gentleman . ’ |
| 4 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 5 | ‘ I would expect you to try to poison my mind against him . |
| 6 | ‘ It was kind of you to try to help , and a pity you ca n't help us further . |
| 7 | If you would like to visit the University we would urge you to try to come to one of the listed visiting days . |
| 8 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 9 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps they 're using you to try to get to me , ’ Julius suggested . |
| 11 | So I do want you to try to build up as many of those as you can . |
| 12 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 13 | You tried to stop me seeing my family , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 14 | Normally you tried to make things better ; here you tried to stop them getting worse . |
| 15 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 16 | Right okay good , very good the objections cos you tried to whizz one in there very early on but John actually overcome it quite , quite good . |
| 17 | In 1964 when you came in you tried to recast both the structure and the thrust of Cabinet government … . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 19 | Some of you tried to say , once , that I was afraid of the whites . |
| 20 | You tried to say you could n't stomach the welling blood the brains the private thinking tissues of the dead animal the pipes rivulets channels conduits and gulleys with their muscular veinous edges , tripe , brains and tongue . |
| 21 | I did n't even want to listen when you tried to explain … |
| 22 | My apology is for not listening to you when you tried to explain . ’ |
| 23 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 24 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 25 | Is n't she the one you tried to persuade to come to our art class ? ’ |
| 26 | Having brought them into being with your eyes , you tried to force them back in again before they writhed and proliferated everywhere . |
| 27 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 28 | I 'm sure you 'll be surprised to discover that the man you tried to shoot that night at Meltham House was n't Mr Churchill . ’ |
| 29 | Spain was what you tried to wake up from |
| 30 | Then immediately ruined the effect of this proud statement by adding , ‘ You tried to use me , ’ in a choked , husky voice that betrayed all too clearly where the real hurt lay . |