Example sentences of "try [to-vb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilot tried to turn back to Schipol airport . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living . |
| 8 | It was a short-term solution to try to get back to winning things . |
| 9 | Are you still going to try to get back to England this summer ? |
| 10 | I 'll try to go back to the beginning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He believes it is time to re-group and try to get back to the negotiating table . |
| 13 | You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | On the one hand he turns almost to abstraction , ‘ a vast menace of despair ’ , as also to an image of the un-existence of evil , a ‘ huge shadow ’ which Gandalf tries to send back to ‘ nothingness ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The loose scree is very difficult ground for anyone trying to climb back to the path . |
| 19 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
| 20 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 21 | I kept trying to get back to Changez 's lugubrious face , which reclined morosely in his good hand as the guests filled the air around him with cultivated noises . |
| 22 | 111 trying to get back to its Norwegian base after an unsuccessful attack on the flying-boat base farther down the firth . |
| 23 | IF you 're trying to get back to work or change jobs , the Institute of Personnel Management and W H Smith have produced an Employment Pack with lots of practical help , how to do a CV , sample forms and formats and a guide to interviews , £3.99 . |
| 24 | And I think if you start analysing it and trying to think back to how or why , or questioning why it happened , you start worrying about whether it 's going to happen again , and then it wo n't happen . |
| 25 | 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 . |