Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 2 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 3 | tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while . |
| 4 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 5 | She once tried to draw herself at school ‘ when I was obsessed with the dark circles under my eyes . |
| 6 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 7 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 8 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 9 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 11 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 12 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 13 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 14 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 15 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 17 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 18 | Below : When shooting cichlids they show their colours best when not stressed so try to shoot them at home in their shelters . |
| 19 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 20 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 21 | Carter try to ingratiate themselves at our Circulation Not So Bad After All Party , 1990 |
| 22 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 23 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 24 | She might have tried to reach me at the office during the afternoon . |
| 25 | Fig 101 The wind bends at the shoreline in an offshore breeze and tries to cross it at 90 degrees . |
| 26 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 27 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 28 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 29 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 30 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |