1.   The flea by John Donne dramatises a conventional poetic situation, in which an eager lover tries to dissuade a reluctant partner from her coy attitude to sexual behaviour.

2.   A turtle lover tries to run him over on the beach with a tractor.

3.   For the past four years, Raggedy Ann lovers have been trying to get the mop-topped rag doll into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

4.   Ice cream lovers will try almost anything once.

5.   The moments in which the young lovers try to impress each other while simultaneously holding back a bit ring truer than any such exchanges on any screen this season.

6.   Animal lovers try to save stray dogs in Inuit communities where they are treated as pests and periodically killed.

7.   De Klerk said he and his lover had tried to snuff out their passion by purposely avoiding each other.