Example sentences of "have try [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like us to put a run together until the end of the season we have three games left and we have to try to be professional and win them all . ’ |
| 2 | Some nations who have tried to be serious have ended up being dull . |
| 3 | I have tried to be honest today . |
| 4 | ‘ We realise this is a long-term problem and we have tried to be helpful , ’ said Mrs Mitchell . |
| 5 | In what follows I have tried to be explicit and specific about experiences which are by their nature woolly and indeterminate , resisting expression . |
| 6 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |