Example sentences of "tried [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried not to lie to the child , as she had been lied to . |
| 2 | Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain . |
| 3 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 4 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 5 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |
| 6 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 7 | Zambia tried not to think of the future . |
| 8 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 9 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 10 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 11 | Charles tried not to look like the outcast he was feeling and quickened his pace to simulate important last minute business at the Officers ' Mess . |
| 12 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 13 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 14 | The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window . |
| 15 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 16 | There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 17 | The nurse sent to accompany Leslie tried hard to melt into the background as the overjoyed family spent several hours opening presents under the tree . |
| 18 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |