Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 3 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 4 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 5 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 6 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 7 | The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink . |
| 8 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 9 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 10 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 11 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 12 | ROBERT HOPKINS , a young Queensland aborigine , tried to hang himself in a prison cell using a blanket torn into strips . |
| 13 | Who in drunken rage tried to hang himself in the orchard . |
| 14 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 15 | He tried to think himself into a detective frame of mind . |
| 16 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 17 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 18 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |