Example sentences of "try to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I tried to take it off I found that Lili had pinned it to my petticoat and I was trapped in it . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't try to take me on , Quincx ! |
| 5 | I have indeed managed to frighten them away , and I do n't think they 'll ever try to take me on again . |
| 6 | One day , he 'll try to take me out , you know . |
| 7 | Try to take it out before you get close to it otherwise it 'll blow a big hole in your advancing army . |
| 8 | I try to take it off so I can keep it , but the paper tears . |
| 9 | And it would be a brave council official who tries to take it down . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | EMMA and RICHARD shuffle along anxiously in his wake , trying to take it in . |
| 13 | Felicity gazes at him , trying to take it in . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yeah , he then starts trying to take it back |