Example sentences of "try [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 2 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 3 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 4 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 5 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 6 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 7 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
| 8 | In clinical practice we try to keep up with the scientific literature and adapt our actions accordingly . |
| 9 | A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses . |
| 10 | I spent hours trying to come up with a brilliant argument that would demolish the ‘ no deals ’ policy in seconds and solve everything . |
| 11 | Now writers are trying to come up with a new story for Willis as rival studios race to cash in on the Die Hard formula . |
| 12 | Even as she turned towards the staircase she was still trying to come up with a good reason for not sleeping in his bed , but when she reached the top step she turned with a resigned sigh towards his room , too bone weary to argue any more . |
| 13 | Not to speak of trying to keep up with the other three murder investigations I 'm in charge of . |
| 14 | It was all she could do to scramble behind trying to keep up with the long , impatient strides . |
| 15 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |