Example sentences of "try [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to kill myself twice in the space of ten days , |
| 2 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 3 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 4 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 5 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 6 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 7 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 8 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 9 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 10 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 11 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 12 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 13 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 14 | Onto another club trying to pull themselves out of the doldrums … |
| 15 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 16 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 17 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 18 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 19 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 20 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 21 | ‘ No , Father , ’ Ellie replied , trying to manoeuvre herself away from the smell of stale whisky and nicotine . |
| 22 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 23 | They were … sort of … writhing around … struggling … trying to push themselves away from the wall . |