Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 2 | As Fraser tried to drive out of the car park one of the men tried to prise open the sunroof of his car , then kicked the side of it , causing dents in the driver 's side wing and door . |
| 3 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 4 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 5 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 6 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 7 | They can hold the dog , as it is likely to try to leap out of the bath . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 10 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 11 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , so that you can ease your own frustration and put the blame on me ? ’ she managed to shoot back , and tried to wriggle out of the bag , unsuccessfully . |
| 14 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 15 | The officers are backed up by four police cars whose job is to try to keep up with the train on nearby roads and help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 16 | They stopped their lumbering charge and , very slowly , tried to dodge out of the way . |
| 17 | Here , he could see only the occasional flutter of movement , as the fearful denizens of the area tried to keep out of the way and out of trouble . |
| 18 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Instead of trying to walk , doggy paddle , Heathcliffe always tried to climb out of the water ; hence , he generally ended up on his back , legs lashing away hopelessly , until disappearing under the surface . |
| 21 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 22 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 23 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 26 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 27 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 28 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 29 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 30 | 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 . |