Example sentences of "i try [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 3 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 4 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 5 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 6 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 7 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 8 | and I try to keep out of the way . |
| 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 | That 's what I try to bring out in the story , and the eyes of the whites ; their penetrating eyes , their hostile eyes . |