Example sentences of "try come to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 2 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 3 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 4 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 5 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 6 | Germans had to try to come to terms with the problem of ‘ collective guilt ’ for the events of the Hitler period . |
| 7 | That all thinking is grounded in analogization shows up especially clearly when we try to come to grips with the thought of another civilization . |
| 8 | An Italian proof-reader and old Party-member , nicknamed the Professore , tries to come to terms with the apparent bankruptcy of his own system of beliefs . |
| 9 | WONAM 'S EDITOR MARY RIDDELL TRIES TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE LATEST MEN 'S TALK |
| 10 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 11 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 12 | Among the forward-looking theologians who were trying to come to terms with the new scientific data was the Dean of St Paul 's , Canon H.L. Mansel , who gave the Bampton Lectures in 1858 . |
| 13 | These are 30 ’ x 21 ’ and are much less about recording a particular view and more about trying to come to terms with the atmosphere and structure of the place . |
| 14 | The couple , who also have a daughter Emma , 16 , and son Daniel , eight , are still trying to come to terms with the murder . |
| 15 | A late identification of visual handicap calls for information and advice to be readily available and sympathetically discussed with parents who are often expected to come to a decision about their child 's educational placement while they are still trying to come to terms with the implications of a medical prognosis for their child that may be depressing . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's been through hell these past two years trying to come to terms with the loss of his family . |
| 17 | When I arrived on the scene , Joe was trying to come to terms with the situation but it was a difficult time all round . |
| 18 | Half an hour later she was sitting cross-legged on the floor trying to come to terms with the lengths Jason Prior had gone to blacken her reputation and safeguard his job . |
| 19 | Current Government policies seek to tackle the problem , and it would be churlish of me to say that the Government are not trying to come to terms with the unemployment problem . |
| 20 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 21 | The crossing to Ostend was uneventful , with Fabia , when not hoping with all she had that everything would be all right with Barney , trying to come to terms with the fact that , despite having an innate aversion to lies and deception , she had just about agreed to practise both . |
| 22 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 23 | When Clinton disembarked , The Times was trying to come to grips with the modern world : William Rees-Mogg asked Mick Jagger to explain his generation and wrote fearful leaders about student unrest . |