Example sentences of "i tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 2 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 3 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 4 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 6 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 7 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 8 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |
| 9 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 10 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 11 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 12 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 13 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 14 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 15 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 16 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |