Example sentences of "try [to-vb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 2 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 5 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 6 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 7 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 8 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 9 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 10 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 11 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 12 | We staged with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat , and Salalah , and I can recall one evening a hit of a commotion , when one of the Wapiti crews of No 55 Squadron caused an uproar by trying to get on to the roof . |
| 13 | Speedie was just trying to get on with the game . |
| 14 | He spent the rest of the number trying to latch on to the ‘ partners ’ of all the other male dancers . |
| 15 | er The ransom story may , may have come from er a source er possibly a Hezbalar source er trying to latch on to the , basically to the er the , the thoughts of freedom and just to jump on the bandwagon . |