Example sentences of "try [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] control " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 2 | United were on top but it was a scrappy game , full of fouls as both sides tried to gain some sort of control ; one touch football as I say , a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of fouls , although United had a chance in the fifteenth minute when Martin Foyle almost headed home Paul Simpson 's cross from the right at the near post . |
| 3 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 4 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 5 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |