Example sentences of "i have tried [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the listed newcomers may not sell as well as the established names mentioned beneath them , but they are there very often because publishers are promoting them heavily , and I have tried to pick the best of these . |
| 2 | In this essay I have tried to identify the principal responses of workers to the industrial situation as they experience it . |
| 3 | " In the Night Cafe I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . " |
| 4 | I have tried to exclude the legendary detectives for another day , but , despite my best efforts , Sam Spade , Philip Marlowe and James Bond have still managed to insinuate themselves : they used foot-in-the-door tactics , I 'm afraid , and who am I to argue ? |
| 5 | In this essay I have tried to make the most of one such region — in which the connection between one 's everyday experience of bodily sensations and one 's conception of the relation of body and mind seems fairly plain : to accept the James-type account , and the general conceptual background of which it is a symptom , is to deny one 's everyday experience of the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach . |
| 6 | I have tried to show the real gap between Labour and the Conservative party and Government on matters of law and order . |