Example sentences of "[noun] as he tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 2 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 3 | Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac . |
| 4 | A policeman was one of the first victims , injured when he was hit by a car as he tried to direct rush-hour traffic around an accident on icy roads . |
| 5 | The handsome admirer , said to have called Diana ‘ Squidgy ’ , crunched his company car as he tried to dodge a photographer working for The Sun . |
| 6 | Familiar names were going through Riven 's mind as he tried to tie in what was real in this Minginish and what was in his stories . |
| 7 | He approached her outside her Oxford home and held a knife to her neck as he tried to force her in to her car . |
| 8 | Then he returned , face contorted with concentration as he tried to keep the glasses steady in his blotched hands . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 10 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 11 | But , as Mao grew increasingly suspicious of and isolated from more distinguished revolutionary veterans , he turned increasingly to his secretary for help as he tried to rally support for more radical , leftist policies . |
| 12 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 13 | Graham Levy broke a chair on his wife 's back , hit her with a table leg and struck the boy as he tried to stop the attack . |
| 14 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 15 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 16 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 17 | They were said to have manhandled Hakkari province governor Erdogan Ulker as he tried to inspect the Yesilova camp on May 1 , following Fisk 's report . |
| 18 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 19 | The Colonel slashed with his riding crop as he tried to disentangle the trapped limbers . |
| 20 | Later he would travel to France and England , where he met with more senior BCCI officials as he tried to make arrangements to launder millions of dollars a month . |
| 21 | Hubert squinted as though at some object in the middle distance as he tried to recall . |
| 22 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe . |
| 23 | Lazio may well have been planning to allow Gazza only an hour 's play in any event as he tried to gain match fitness . |
| 24 | New recruit , David Byrne , sliced in the ball as he tried to clear . |
| 25 | Three people were shot dead by police , including local DP leader Arben Broxhi , who was reportedly shot in the back as he tried to calm the rioters ; a fourth person died of bullet wounds in hospital on April 4 . |
| 26 | Vologsky glanced at the photograph , his features stiffening into a mask as he tried to repress his disgust . |
| 27 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 28 | Scott Reading was the focal point of a close finish as he tried to protect a five shot lead over the closing three ends after fantastic work by Paul Maynard 's rink . |
| 29 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 30 | PC Peter Betts was on a training run when he crashed into a hedge as he tried to avoid a head-on collision with a lorry . |