Example sentences of "[pron] try [to-vb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 2 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 3 | I want you every moment of the day and night and every time I try to fold up a map . |
| 4 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 5 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 6 | A WOMAN passer-by who tried to break up a fight outside a Chinese take-away restaurant was punched in the face , Brain-tree magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 7 | So of course you rifle the fridge and the larder for signs of malpractice , and even though you 're a wholemeal bread fan ( do you make a fuss over it at hotels in the morning ? ) and you try to keep up a regime of healthy , dull , fresh fruit eating , the evidence is all there : tinned baked beans ; deep frozen specialist pork sausages ; stilton . |
| 8 | We tried to fix up a time to talk about the Willis Phazer board . |
| 9 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important , before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to , to work . |
| 10 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to work , and even then there may be a chance for you actually to discuss the plan with various people as well . |
| 11 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |
| 12 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |