Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're trying to come up with a ‘ user 's guide ’ to explain the regulations . ’ |
| 3 | Now writers are trying to come up with a new story for Willis as rival studios race to cash in on the Die Hard formula . |
| 4 | I spent hours trying to come up with a brilliant argument that would demolish the ‘ no deals ’ policy in seconds and solve everything . |
| 5 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 6 | Even as she turned towards the staircase she was still trying to come up with a good reason for not sleeping in his bed , but when she reached the top step she turned with a resigned sigh towards his room , too bone weary to argue any more . |
| 7 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 8 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 9 | She keeps circling between past and present , memory and oblivion , like someone trying to wake up from a nightmare . |