Example sentences of "try [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 4 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 5 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 6 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 7 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 8 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I 'll try to go back to the beginning . |
| 10 | Ten months is quite long enough to wait and you should try to get back to the specialist for another course of the ‘ kick-start ’ treatment . |
| 11 | He believes it is time to re-group and try to get back to the negotiating table . |
| 12 | I hope to God , he thought , Durkin does not try to get back before the storm breaks . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 14 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 15 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 16 | He also earned the nickname of the ‘ Red Caliph ’ by trying to give back to the Muslims a grand old mosque which the Catholic church had converted into a monastery 500 years ago . |
| 17 | The loose scree is very difficult ground for anyone trying to climb back to the path . |
| 18 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 19 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 20 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 21 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 22 | ‘ Imagine someone who had given up teaching five years ago trying to get back into the profession now . |
| 23 | It 's at that point that many women start trying to get back into the labour market and at that point it is extremely difficult , so I think that we 're talking about a number of things . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're all mad , ’ said a red-nosed Bardolphian Gefreiter , ‘ I wish I could be a prisoner : you would n't catch me trying to get back to the war ’ |
| 25 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 26 | When people are moving in all directions , meeting dead ends and trying to push back to the start , it 's not only chaotic , it 's downright dangerous . |