Example sentences of "try [to-vb] to sleep " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 2 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 3 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 4 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 5 | I try to go to sleep again , but I ai n't sleepy , and I get all fidgety . |
| 6 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 7 | There was no point in trying to go to sleep again . |
| 8 | The least productive thing to do is to keep trying to go to sleep . |
| 9 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 10 | She kept her eyes closed , trying to go to sleep . |
| 11 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 12 | You do n't know what it 's like , trying to go to sleep . |
| 13 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
| 14 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |