Example sentences of "[noun prp] try [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 2 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 3 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 4 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 5 | PERSISTENT shoplifter Anthony Thompson tried to walk out of a clothes store with £370 worth of clothing . |
| 6 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 7 | As Fraser tried to drive out of the car park one of the men tried to prise open the sunroof of his car , then kicked the side of it , causing dents in the driver 's side wing and door . |
| 8 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |