Example sentences of "'ve try " in BNC.

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1 I think you 've to try it and not know .
2 Stavrogin writes : ‘ I 've tried the depths of debauchery and wasted my strength over it ; but I do n't like debauchery and never wanted it . ’
3 We 've tried to abolish destitution .
4 We 've tried to abolish stigma .
5 ‘ I 'VE TRIED to imagine what it 's like to drown .
6 I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere .
7 It is important to create , as I 've tried to do at British Coal , a sense of challenge .
8 It tends to make life a bit dull at work and we 've tried to come to terms with that .
9 I 've tried to love my stepson but I really resent him .
10 ‘ I 've tried growing interesting plants in grass but it 's very hard .
11 I know because I 've tried it as well , and I would say it was a large contributing factor to a breakdown of understanding , because at this point I was watching the deterioration of the relationship between Tony DeFries and David .
12 ‘ I 've tried telling the police , but they still think Liam 's in your house .
13 He had not helped his cause when he ‘ trotted blithely down the steps to greet eager reporters with the news ‘ Its all off boys ’ ’ and added , to cries of ‘ Jimmy 's selling you ’ the ripost that ‘ I 've tried boys , I 've done my very best .
14 I 've tried 'em all and I know .
15 ‘ All the Synergy ideas we 've tried to work out as we went along — ‘ interactive ’ is n't the right word , but that element is important to us .
16 ‘ I 've tried all ways . ’
17 We 've tried to lighten it up . ’
18 ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’
19 I 've tried it and decided he 's got different genes and will never change .
20 ‘ We 've tried not to pretend it is something it 's not .
21 You can cope with parents so much better if you feel that you 've tried your best with them and you do n't feel guilty because you 've hurt them .
22 I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help .
23 I 've tried , believe me .
24 Since then I 've tried to forget it .
25 Christmas is a very social time and we 've tried to make this a social newsletter .
26 The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it .
27 Personally I 've tried to keep that in perspective .
28 She said , as she was lying there , ‘ I feel , Dame Edna , I can talk about anything to you and I 've never had this experience before when I 've tried to talk to people .
29 ‘ I 've tried to cross-reference food historians with cookery writers , who tend to brush aside the contribution of black slave cooks .
30 And I 've tried to stay true to the original recipes given to me by members of my family , even though some of them wo n't be very popular — I think the brains and chitterlings [ pigs ' intestines ] recipes are of historical interest only ! ’
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