Example sentences of "try [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 2 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 3 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 4 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 5 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 6 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 7 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 10 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 11 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 12 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 13 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 14 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 15 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 16 | ‘ I really ought to try to get up to the farm to fetch our Carrie down . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll try to go back to the beginning . |
| 18 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 19 | But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed , nor do they always try to live up to the ideal . |
| 20 | Ten months is quite long enough to wait and you should try to get back to the specialist for another course of the ‘ kick-start ’ treatment . |
| 21 | He believes it is time to re-group and try to get back to the negotiating table . |
| 22 | If it feels like the penis is getting soft during sex , try holding on to the base of the condom . |
| 23 | ‘ See the post where the little owl has perched ? ’ said the helpful Warden , ‘ call it twelve o'clock , try coming down to a quarter past , near those three lap wings … there 's a chance … ’ |
| 24 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 25 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 26 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 27 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 28 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 29 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 30 | He also earned the nickname of the ‘ Red Caliph ’ by trying to give back to the Muslims a grand old mosque which the Catholic church had converted into a monastery 500 years ago . |