Sentence examples for we basically tried from inspiring English sources

"Yesterday we basically tried to price the most positive outcome," said Nick Kalivas, vice president for research at MF Global, explaining a surge that lifted the Dow nearly 500 points and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index 7percentt.

Randy Levine, the Yankees' president who argued most of the case for the team, said, "We basically tried to explain that in our offer, Mariano Rivera would be the highest-paid closer in baseball".

We basically tried to recreate the style that they're known for, and the world they created.

"And then we basically tried to set it up five or six times before we made it".

He said that "it got to the point where as much as I respected the guys at I.R.S., we basically tried to record the records so they wouldn't know we were recording them!", and explained that part of the reason why R.E.M. recorded the album so quickly was that the group wanted to finish before representatives from I.R.S. showed up to listen to it.

"We basically try to put a wine mindset on the sake labels so that people can learn, 'Oh, I like sake from so and so,' " said Ed Lehrman, managing partner of Vine Connections, an importer that has gotten into the sake business in the last few years.

"First, any information we give them is based on individual strengths and needs; we basically try to make it as specific as possible.

We basically try and show images that people can relate to.

"We basically try to turn it into a party," Chick-fil-A Vice President David Farmer said.

"We've basically tried to democratise this incredibly complex goal of quickly and with no technical prowess being able to make your website social".

"We're basically trying to build something we'd really want to play in," Mr. Marcus said.