Example sentences of "[verb] tried [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the foregoing , psychiatry itself is increasingly being forced to admit that the firm categories of psychosis with which it has tried to work for many years are of limited value . |
| 2 | If I 'd tried to run for it . |
| 3 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 4 | Everything she had tried to achieve for herself during the last four years would have to be tossed away , useless . |
| 5 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 6 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 7 | They have tried to look for ‘ biological advantages ’ in various attributes of human civilization . |