Example sentences of "he tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to improve on the work of the Polish physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit , but did not succeed — largely , it seems , because of the difficulty people found in following his instructions on how to construct his thermometer . |
| 2 | We got the Jet Ski onto its trailer but William 's Merc was one of the cars trapped on the slip ; he tried to reason with the BMW people , then sat in the car and sulked . |
| 3 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 4 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 5 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 6 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 7 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 8 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 9 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 10 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 11 | As he had nothing to do , he tried to melt into the background and give his own eyes a chance . |
| 12 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 13 | He was clutching his right leg with both hands and that was how he tried to run across the street , like some rubber-legged Vaudeville comedian . |
| 14 | He tried to think about the Wall . |
| 15 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 16 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 17 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 18 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 19 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 20 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 21 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 22 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |