Example sentences of "try [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 5 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 6 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 7 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 8 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 9 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 10 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 11 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 12 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 13 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 14 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 15 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 16 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 17 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 18 | Who in drunken rage tried to hang himself in the orchard . |
| 19 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 20 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 21 | ‘ For you know , we are obliged to try to amuse ourselves during the hunt . ’ |
| 22 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 23 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 24 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 25 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 26 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 27 | I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , those newcomers who wish to ‘ belong ’ may try to ingratiate themselves with the local population , sometimes — because of their misconceived expectations of village life — with disappointing results . |
| 30 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |