Example sentences of "try [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 2 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 3 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 4 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 5 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 6 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 7 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 8 | Having brought them into being with your eyes , you tried to force them back in again before they writhed and proliferated everywhere . |
| 9 | I tried to force her back to bed , but her fever made her surprisingly strong . |
| 10 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 11 | In 1984 his friend of many years , Liz Taylor , tried to get him back in front of the cameras and to conquer his alcoholism . |
| 12 | Lee tried to get it back off him . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be unwise to try to move her back to the Rectory , ’ Tom Horrocks was saying . |
| 14 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 15 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |
| 16 | Kenna — full of hope — tried to bring him back to life by applying the magic wild herb known as moly , but the moment the juice touched the body it was turned into a snowdrop . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd repeat my name — and as I got really far from shore I 'd say ‘ Ng ’ or ‘ Adolph ’ — to try to bring me back inside myself . |
| 18 | They might fear you , hate you , and try to exorcise you back into the fifth dimension , but they accept you for what you are . |
| 19 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 20 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
| 21 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 22 | He 'd tried to study it back in the Store . |
| 23 | After that first shock of entry she had offered herself without shame , but Marc had slowed , holding her wildness in check , and with a hoarse , inquisitorial , ‘ Sarella ? ’ had tried to hold them back upon their course . |
| 24 | tries to head it back into the penalty area and it rebounds off . |
| 25 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 26 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 27 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 28 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 29 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 30 | Well it was , I was just trying to persuade it back to its normal cage when the , like , everywhere . |