Example sentences of "he try [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried using lithium salts to quieten manic patients . |
| 2 | He tried reading Advanced Physical Dynamics and Introverted Equations for the 3-D Aeronautical Practice . |
| 3 | He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders , as instructed by the physical education teacher . |
| 4 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 5 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 6 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 7 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 8 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 9 | After he killed her he tried taking her wedding ring and when he could n't get it he hacked her whole fucking hand off . ’ |
| 10 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 11 | He tried setting up in Geneva and Canada before ending up in San Diego . |
| 12 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 13 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 14 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 15 | He tried shutting his eyes but sickly feelings ran through his body and made his fingers tingle . |
| 16 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |
| 17 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 18 | He tried giving freelance lectures in Edinburgh , and wrote a book on British starfishes ( 1841 ) , but these brought in very little . |
| 19 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 20 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 21 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 22 | He tried squeezing through the bars but it was impossible to escape . |
| 23 | He tried raising a hand . |
| 24 | He tried attending meetings of the Student Christian Movement , and was bored . |
| 25 | He tried different approaches : he tried going out with John ; talking with him ; sitting with him ; even designing a game for him based on football which the student knew interested John . |
| 26 | ‘ How about if he tries speaking English ? |
| 27 | He tries putting them behind his back and looking at the floor , smiling reflectively . |