Example sentences of "try to take [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 2 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 3 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 4 | Instead , Cecil King , who had pledged the TUC he would keep the paper alive till the end of the decade ( providing its obvious description as King 's cross ) , tried to take it up market and appeal to the younger voters , better off but ‘ socially radical ’ , whose support had just helped elect Harold Wilson into office . |
| 5 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't try to take me on , Quincx ! |
| 7 | I have indeed managed to frighten them away , and I do n't think they 'll ever try to take me on again . |
| 8 | One day , he 'll try to take me out , you know . |
| 9 | She will carry them around with her , and is likely to prove aggressive if you try to take them away during this phase . |
| 10 | I play a guy who finds love and then people try to take it away . |
| 11 | If a local authority wins a tender , the Government try to take it away . |
| 12 | Try to take it out before you get close to it otherwise it 'll blow a big hole in your advancing army . |
| 13 | I try to take it off so I can keep it , but the paper tears . |
| 14 | The rest are harder to get registered — designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 and dubbed jubilee kiosks , they were mass-produced until 1968 — but they are likely to survive so long as they are in good condition and in ‘ heritage locations ’ ( that is , near the house of somebody ready to give BT a hard time if it tries to take them away ) . |
| 15 | And it would be a brave council official who tries to take it down . |
| 16 | Now this other person is trying to trying to change the conversation , trying to take you away from what you 're trying what you want done . |
| 17 | You know , now that is , that is when somebody is trying to take you further , there 's , there 's , there 's the food , there 's been a food , I do n't know , food , food poisoning outbreak in a well-known city restaurant or something like that , there 's thirty people in hospital , a couple are pretty serious , there 's a general flap on because it 's the height of the tourist season in Cambridge , and you 've been called in . |
| 18 | Now as soon as you 've got a minus X and you 're trying to take it over to one side , and you 're trying to bring the other one over , there 's a good chance that something 's going |
| 19 | You 're trying to take it away with all these dentists and bone men and switching her side in bed . |
| 20 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 21 | EMMA and RICHARD shuffle along anxiously in his wake , trying to take it in . |
| 22 | Felicity gazes at him , trying to take it in . |
| 23 | In fact , she was still lying where he had left her , in shock , bruised , wounded , and still trying to take it in when some minutes later , in the still of the night , she heard the outer door of the hotel suite close . |
| 24 | Yeah , he then starts trying to take it back |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been to the police about this and they are trying to take it further . |