Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 2 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 3 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 4 | In case you think I am exaggerating I will try to put down on the page the conversation we held this morning , he in his warm office with his eighteenth century paperweight and leggy shit of a secretary and I in a dirty glass-doored box that might have been entered in an exhibition of unusual refrigerators . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 6 | Then , when word got out that Hurley again had a drawerful of money to pay for information , everybody in Beirut would try to get in on the act , making things up if they had to . |
| 7 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 8 | It 's always been around in comic culture , but as cynical publishers try to cash in on the success of Howard Chaykin 's gross Black Kiss , there 's so much of it that the powers that be have noticed . |
| 9 | I try to get out on the hill for either a call-out or a practice at least once a month with my team — the Furness Mountain Rescue Team which deals with an area of the southern Lake District . |
| 10 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 11 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 12 | Were there any other rival boatmen , people trying to get in on the scene ? |
| 13 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 14 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |