Example sentences of "try [to-vb] up [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 2 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
| 3 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 4 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 5 | But he missed his chance , and spent the next seven years trying to catch up on his lost opportunity . |
| 6 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 7 | He was probably quite old , then , Lindsey thought , busily fitting pieces into the mental jigsaw she had been trying to build up of her new boss . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 9 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |