Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 2 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 3 | Do n't worry , George , I 'm not about to sally forth on my old hobby-horse , not for long anyway , just long enough to try to explain what the greatest number means in the term the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 4 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 5 | It will try to identify what the key moments of commitment/disengagement are , when , and to whom , school offers self-fulfilment and when it operates denial ; whether patterns of differentiation persist within the national framework of ‘ entitlement ’ and equality of opportunity . |
| 6 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 7 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 8 | Reporters try to establish what the unfolding events mean to the principal actors concerned . |
| 9 | To try and work out why some ways of organising nursing care make it easier to give care which suits the needs of individual clients , we shall look at four commonly used delivery systems and try to identify who the real client(s) might be for each of them . |
| 10 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 11 | I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ . |
| 12 | If he 's trying to find you the cheapest |
| 13 | In both situations , time taken trying to establish who the key influencers and decision-makers are will be well rewarded . |
| 14 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 15 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 16 | In The Hidden Files , his fascinating contemplation of his life and his work , he confesses that writing Suarez almost cost him his sanity , and in trying to analyse what the black novel means to him he returns to it again and again , like a child rubbing a particularly vicious boil . |
| 17 | Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was . |
| 18 | Eddington paused , then replied , " I am trying to think who the third person is . " ) |
| 19 | If it were abandoned , the burden on local authorities of trying to collect what the Prime Minister described as a virtually uncollectable tax would be substantially lightened , and that would be of great benefit . |