Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She passed about forty-eight kilometres north of Krakatoa on the evening of the twenty-sixth , spent the night of the twenty-sixth to seventh anchored in Telok Betong , tried to sail again for Anjer in the morning , but was prevented from doing so by the violence of the eruption . |
| 2 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 3 | But I knew it was useless to try to make up for all his losses . |
| 4 | Try to stretch up for 15 counts this time . |
| 5 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 6 | Probably trying to get ahead for that , one of those . |
| 7 | Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’ |