Example sentences of "try do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |
| 2 | ‘ What you did to that boat was only marginally less criminal than what you tried to do to me . |
| 3 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 4 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 5 | But what I tried to do with ‘ The Leavetaking ’ is probably impossible in that it 's not psychologically true . |
| 6 | Sandra you got time to sit , sit and do it with him , like I tried to do with Simon or |
| 7 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 8 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 9 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 10 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 11 | Look , for the sake of argument , we 'll say that however much good you tried to do in society , in fact you 'd never do any good . |
| 12 | Thomas Carlyle had suggested to Elizabeth Gaskell that she should ‘ use her pen for the public good ’ and this both husband and wife tried to do in their way . |
| 13 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 14 | We would try to do for Rotherham what Checkers discos had done for Sheffield . |
| 15 | After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France . |
| 16 | One thing that I do try to do before writing an article , is to find out the availability of the particular fish . |
| 17 | We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be . |
| 18 | Each week I try to do at least three duties , and Friday 30 June was my third that week . |
| 19 | It is possible to cite one case to illustrate what they try to do for victims which further demonstrates the commitment of the unit to a welfare service role . |
| 20 | It 's one of the things I try to do for selfish pleasure , glorious , indulgent , selfish pleasure , rather than for money . ’ |
| 21 | That 's what image means and it 's what we try to do in political campaigns . |
| 22 | What I try to do in this book is to show that faith is reasonable . |
| 23 | express any dissatisfaction try to do in it a constructive and diplomatic way . |
| 24 | This is what I try to do in the Library , and I 've had very good feedback from outside users . |
| 25 | Try doing without sugar in beverages or use a tablet or liquid sweetener . |
| 26 | It is important to create , as I 've tried to do at British Coal , a sense of challenge . |
| 27 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 28 | ‘ Why should I be punished for what Jason Prior 's tried to do to me — ? ’ |
| 29 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 30 | What I have tried to do in this book is to tell how he did it . |