Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 2 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 3 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 4 | I er I tried to tell him He he tried to point out to me , he says , That er the average earnings you see of district inspectors you see ? |
| 5 | But she 'd be as cool and calm as she could as she tried to point out to Naylor Massingham the unfairness of his action . |
| 6 | If we can get past the clutter , we found that out , when , in our generation we tried to switch over to decimalisation , |
| 7 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 8 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 9 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 10 | Today , with another climber , he tried to climb down to Camp 3 , but his snow blindness forced them both to turn back . |
| 11 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 12 | With a shrug , Melissa left the office , fetched notebooks and a writing-pad from her car , and tried to settle down to work . |
| 13 | The pilot tried to turn back to Schipol airport . |
| 14 | She tried to call out to him , but again no words came . |
| 15 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 16 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 17 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 18 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 19 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 20 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 21 | Poor Kate sat up straight on her bed , her legs crossed beneath her , and tried to hang on to her sanity . |
| 22 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 23 | THE 1980s was the decade when the sleeping giants of the High Street banks tried to wake up to customers ' needs before competitors stole accounts from under their noses . |
| 24 | I tried to get closer to them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 29 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 30 | 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 . |