Example sentences of "tried [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 2 | On the other hand the British government was disturbed to find , early in 1955 , that the credibility of the nuclear deterrent in Europe might be weakened as the Americans tried to spell out differing roles for tactical and strategic nuclear weapons in the defence of the West . |
| 3 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 4 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 5 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 6 | The future of newly-formed UK firm , Goldmine Technologies Ltd , Berkhamstead , Hertfordshire , was hanging in the balance last week , as its Swiss parent , Goldmine Technologies AG , Zug , Switzerland , tried to stump up new sources of venture funding for the group ( UX No 382 ) . |