Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day !
2 Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave .
3 And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea .
7 Conflict with authority : Family members may repeatedly try to cover up for the misdeeds of the primary sufferer and may be exceedingly angry with various authorities when they themselves are found out .
8 I suppose he 'll take it easy now and try to strengthen up for the winter
9 You try to get up for a cup of tea
10 He would work more overtime and try to get home for the winter .
11 And we always try to get together for a while in the same room before we play a concert , just to make sure we have a talk and a laugh .
12 Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme .
13 So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door .
14 Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ .
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 .
16 By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September .
17 I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had .
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