Example sentences of "try [to-vb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 2 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 3 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 4 | Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames . |
| 5 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 6 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 7 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 8 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 9 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 10 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 11 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 12 | Ministers will try to hide from the reality . |
| 13 | You should keep a close watch on a new dog in particular in these surroundings , because often they may try to escape from the garden , and go wandering . |
| 14 | ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ asked Rachel dubiously , worried that Belinda might try to climb from the horse when the carousel was in motion , or , even worse , that she might slip from its back . |
| 15 | There was every likelihood now that the marquis would try to withdraw from the match . |
| 16 | Try to find from the salvage dealer the police station from which he collected the vehicle and enquire if they know its original number from their files . |
| 17 | There is also a level-of-analysis problem for theories which try to work from the inside . |
| 18 | Females often try to escape from the alpha male 's vigilance , and will go up to the beta male and solicit copulation . |
| 19 | It was the elderly widow of the village-school caretaker , whom the council had tried to evict from the flat that went with her husband 's job . |
| 20 | I wondered if he was trying to hide from the Eladeldi , but he was just nosing for something somebody else had dropped . |
| 21 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 22 | ‘ Doctor , ’ Blake interrupted the stranger , who was still trying to escape from the rope . |
| 23 | What if the plaintiff in this case had been a tradesperson ( i.e a lawful visitor to the premises , but one who was not in a contractual relationship with the hotel ) who was injured whilst trying to escape from the fire ? |
| 24 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 25 | Ethiopia , now at peace , is trying to rebuild from the ravages of war . |
| 26 | We believe it drove onto the site just before the call to the fire brigade — and that 's what we 're trying to ascertain from the travellers . |
| 27 | ‘ We have only to put together in the right way what we know without adding anything , and the satisfaction we are trying to get from the explanation comes of itself . ’ |
| 28 | At the top of the backswing , deliberately trying to push from the inside of the right foot , and trying to force the hips to drive forward , will lead to a great deal of confusion in your golf swing . |
| 29 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 30 | Sadly , many feel that such opportunities are lacking within other areas of catering , and chefs often face discrimination when trying to move from the kitchens up into management . |