Example sentences of "try [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had about fifteen minutes to go , and decided to try to continue to Viseu , since we could now pick up the VOR , and therefore find our way back to Vila Real if we had to . |
| 2 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 3 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 4 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 5 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 6 | He told me to try to go to Cookham Wood : in his words , ‘ There 's a better class of prisoner there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 9 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 13 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 14 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 15 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 16 | Germans had to try to come to terms with the problem of ‘ collective guilt ’ for the events of the Hitler period . |
| 17 | Also it ignores the possibility of the brain 's own plasticity — that is , if one site is removed , another may become available to take over its tasks — issues with which the experiments of Chapter 11 will have to try to come to terms . |
| 18 | I need time to think , to try to come to terms with — ’ |
| 19 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 20 | Frederica tried to talk to M. Grimaud about Racine but , although he could quote several speeches , he was more interested in what Racine was and meant than in what he had written . |
| 21 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |
| 22 | On two occasions , I tried to talk to people and ask for help . |
| 23 | Kinnear tried to talk to Graham Taylor yesterday to push the claims of Robbie Earle and Warren Barton . |
| 24 | I tried to talk to Branwell about it , but it was impossible . |
| 25 | After a night in a shelter , very wet and depressed , Harry got out his maps and decided to try to cycle to Holland where patriots might help him . |
| 26 | A fatal accident inquiry at Dumbarton Sheriff Court yesterday was told that the pilot , Robert Watts , 53 , had been advised not to try to fly to Mull if he could avoid it . |
| 27 | Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety . |
| 28 | in Greek mythology , Bellerophon 's winged horse , on which he tried to fly to heaven . |
| 29 | She tried to get to Ana but fainted as she moved . |
| 30 | I think to be quite honest , if they 're not interested enough to try to get to classes |