Example sentences of "try [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 2 | ‘ She wo n't get away from me like she did from the ‘ palookas ’ who tried to sit on her shoulder in the world championships . ’ |
| 3 | Tried to sit on basket . |
| 4 | When money became scarce , he tried to go on welfare , but the woman official said , ‘ What 's your problem , Mr Webb ? |
| 5 | A constitutional convention was elected in May 1975 to try to agree on a new form of government but it too ended in failure , leaving the province under direct rule from Whitehall , through the Northern Ireland Office and the continued presence of the army . |
| 6 | Hence another Cabinet meeting on Saturday , the 22nd … to try to agree on additional economies which would win Opposition support . |
| 7 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |
| 8 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 9 | One of the men tried to jump on board , but could n't make it as the Jeep was travelling too fast . |
| 10 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 11 | I gave up trying to find excuses to calm her and tried to concentrate on my ironing , hoping against hope that you would yet arrive . |
| 12 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 13 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 14 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 15 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |
| 16 | She tried to concentrate on that particular pain . |
| 17 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 18 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 19 | Dreamily he tried to concentrate on it , to classify it , but it defied his effort . |
| 20 | She tried to concentrate on driving , she got the car into the slow lane and looked down at her stomach again . |
| 21 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 22 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 23 | I munched away at my apple and toyed with a piece of cheese as I tried to concentrate on their views on Karl Marx . |
| 24 | He tried to concentrate on a claim-form but was unable to absorb the information . |
| 25 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 26 | Then came another political bust-up and the catastrophe of 1921–22 , when a Greek army tried to march on Ankara and was roundly beaten by the new Turkey of Kemal Ataturk . |
| 27 | He also struck him when Sweeney tried to escape on the way to the Bridewell . |
| 28 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 29 | So pressing his camera to my eye I tried to focus on this tanned , happy man , standing with one boot over the edge of a 200- or 300-foot drop , and the other on the edge of thin air . |
| 30 | She tightened her hold on her knees , jabbing her nose further into the folds of her breeches and grimly tried to focus on what was to come . |