Example sentences of "and tried [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 2 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 3 | Nine priests came down from Oxford and tried to lay the troubled soul to rest in a nearby pool . |
| 4 | As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it . |
| 5 | He was a comical little man but as she smiled and tried to say the right things — ‘ Oh ! |
| 6 | ‘ But I 'll console you , my dear , ’ he said and Fenella smiled valiantly and tried to quell the nauseous lifting of her stomach . |
| 7 | Once more inside the pen I held the shovel in front of me and tried to usher the huge sow towards the door . |
| 8 | My sister took a bit of stick at first , too , and although she 's two years younger than me and was in a different class , we stuck together at break times and tried to avoid the sneering eyes . |
| 9 | But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced . |
| 10 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 12 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 13 | Soon after this Helen Stoner married her young man and tried to forget the terrible deaths of her sister and stepfather . |
| 14 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 15 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 16 | He lay back , closing his eyes , and tried to re-constitute the extraordinary image and speech of his father . |
| 17 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 18 | It is true that even as he complained and tried to protect the British position , so he could sometimes admit to the desirability of American support . |
| 19 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 20 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 21 | I struggled back into equilibrium and tried to ride the pulverising waves of misery and found to my desperate dismay that the finger of arrow in front was almost an inch longer . |
| 22 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |