Example sentences of "try [to-vb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charsky , who had no idea how many nights he had spent on the face , tried to keep himself awake by recalling all he knew of Russian history , from the founding of Kiev Rus to the death of Stalin and the suppression of Hungary . |
| 2 | Connelly felt sick and tried to twist himself free , his legs swinging helplessly beneath him . |
| 3 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 4 | While Patsy silently and privately swore his revenge as he tried to scrub himself clean . |
| 5 | There was always an angry expression on his face , and he did not even try to keep himself clean and tidy . |
| 6 | It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind . |
| 7 | He kept making desperate swimming movements , feebly threshing the water trying to pull himself free . |
| 8 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 9 | The dog was leaping about now , trying to wrench himself free of Lee . |
| 10 | Tom 's head sank into his shoulders , as if he were trying to make himself invisible , but his eyes remained restlessly curious . |
| 11 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |
| 12 | He was just trying to make himself sound big . |
| 13 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |