Example sentences of "tried [verb] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 3 | When I tried to sit him up |
| 4 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 5 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 6 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 7 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 8 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 9 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 10 | I put both palms flat on the decaying undergrowth and tried to heave myself up on to my knees . |
| 11 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 12 | They tried to set us up ! ’ |
| 13 | Well yes I know I tried to pick her up |
| 14 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 15 | I tried to pick him up and that 's when I burnt myself . |
| 16 | He stretched out his hand and tried to pick it up , and the plank came up an inch with it . |
| 17 | No one tried to pick it up . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw what happened when that guy tried to pick you up . |
| 19 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 20 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 21 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 22 | So whether she 'd committed the act before and er tried to cover it up I do n't know , cos obviously it 's subject to sub judice at the moment until they 've got the , everything in the outcome . |
| 23 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 24 | Oh , we 've been like this all , Amy and Richard tried to tidy it up . |
| 25 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 26 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 27 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 28 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 29 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 30 | Endill tried to cheer him up , tempting him with games of marbles underneath History class or journeys into the corridors . |