Example sentences of "she tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 2 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 3 | She tried to lean on the field . |
| 4 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 7 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 8 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 9 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 10 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 11 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |
| 12 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 13 | She tried to tear off the balaclava , but it was tied around the neck , so in her shame and fear she attempted to shield her body with her handcuffed arms . |