Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 32 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 33 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 34 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 35 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 36 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 37 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 38 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 39 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 40 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 41 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 42 | The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window . |
| 43 | At least my father tried to get out of the trap , but I doubt if Jones has ever struggled , even with his conscience . |
| 44 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 45 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 46 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | He saw a car turning left , tried to move out of the way , put his foot on the brake and then the accelerator went down as well . |
| 49 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 50 | The boy tried to move in with the grandparents . |
| 51 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 54 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 55 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 56 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 57 | A pasty white blob seemed to float out into the darkness , and then the laser brilliance of a pencil flash in the hand below it . |
| 58 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 59 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 60 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |