Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 2 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 3 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 4 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 6 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 7 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 8 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 9 | and I try to keep out of the way . |
| 10 | I try to get out on the hill for either a call-out or a practice at least once a month with my team — the Furness Mountain Rescue Team which deals with an area of the southern Lake District . |
| 11 | ‘ Each time I fight , I try to bring more to the table and I 'm looking forward to this fight to show people just what I can do . |
| 12 | That 's what I try to bring out in the story , and the eyes of the whites ; their penetrating eyes , their hostile eyes . |
| 13 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 14 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 15 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 16 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 17 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 18 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 19 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 20 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 21 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 22 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 23 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 24 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 25 | These sparkling crystal green pools look ideal for swimming , but beware dangerous undercurrents , the fact that they are deeper than the look , a temperature cold enough to freeze-dry your internal organs , and an audience of 50 tourists who will stand and watch as you try to get out of the water and back into your underpants with some dignity and without swearing . |
| 26 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 27 | In clinical practice we try to keep up with the scientific literature and adapt our actions accordingly . |
| 28 | Well we try to span right over the range of science . |
| 29 | But before I take up that theme let me try to get closer to the ground . |
| 30 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |