Example sentences of "as [pron] tried [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 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 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 4 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 5 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 6 | But more often than not she would climb the stairs — however many flights there might be — as she felt panic rising within her as soon as she tried to step into the lift . |
| 7 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 8 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 9 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 10 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 11 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 12 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 13 | ‘ Day seven today , Piper , 12th June , ’ Taff remarked as he tried to move around the cramped area of his trench collecting his bits of equipment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 16 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 17 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 18 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |