Example sentences of "try [to-vb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 2 | Perhaps he 's happy because he 's realised I 'm not going to try to hang on to him , she thought sadly . |
| 3 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 4 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 5 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 6 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 9 | Poor Kate sat up straight on her bed , her legs crossed beneath her , and tried to hang on to her sanity . |
| 10 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 11 | And she said you 'll never guess Angie how we had two fellas tried to latch on to us . |
| 12 | Gloria was always telling Dot she should try to hold on to things so she 'd have them as keepsakes for ever . |
| 13 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 14 | If we try to hold on to everything we end up with nothing . |
| 15 | Listen to ten digits try to hold on to them and then write them down . |
| 16 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 17 | Will he tell us how many thousands more people will lose their jobs while the Prime Minister tries to hang on to his ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He ca n't make the point that trying to hang on to those feelings leads to unbearable frustration . |
| 20 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 21 | This is not to protect the LIFESPAN image , but to ensure that users trying to log on to LIFESPAN get the correct response from LNAP ( LIFESPAN Not Available Process ) ; ie. that the process is not available . |
| 22 | ‘ Some firms have reduced their staffing levels substantially , but people in the industry are generally trying to hold on to experienced staff . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Some firms have reduced their staffing levels substantially , but people in the industry are generally trying to hold on to experienced staff . ’ |
| 24 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 25 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 26 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 27 | But I 'm beginning to see that there is n't much point in trying to hold on to something that does n't belong to me . |
| 28 | Trying to snatch a word with you is like trying to hold on to a fistful of quicksilver . ’ |
| 29 | One colleague described the experience as ‘ trying to hold on to a handful of wasps . |
| 30 | 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 . |