Example sentences of "[conj] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's got to be better than trying to abseil down the outside . |
| 2 | The rebirth of an underground implies induction , being drawn into shared exile , being both insider and outsider ; rather than trying to break down the doors to edify the unconverted . |
| 3 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 4 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 5 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 6 | A policeman has been jailed for thirty months after he attacked a motorist and tried to cover up the offence . |
| 7 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 8 | Then I was taken back home to my mother 's and tried to build up the relationship again . |
| 9 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 10 | one department might start ‘ empire building ’ and try to take over the work previously done by another department . |
| 11 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 12 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 13 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 14 | His opponent jumps back and tries to fend off the blows with his own sabre but he 's off-balance and William presses forward , swinging the sabre in a hacking , sweeping motion , whacking the edge of the heavy curved blade into the side of his opponent 's torso . |
| 15 | Donna put down the note and ran her hands over the paper , as if trying to smooth out the creases . |
| 16 | Hesitating , as if trying to make out the numbers on the house fronts , which were perfectly clear . |
| 17 | ‘ Coming back and trying to pick up the threads ca n't be easy . ’ |
| 18 | Cecilia had closed the window and gone on upstairs to find dear little Tina up and dressed and trying to brush out the tangles in her golden hair . |
| 19 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |