Example sentences of "[conj] tried [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 2 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ As he opened the door he saw the youths and tried to push the door to . |
| 4 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 5 | One section of the women backed the men ; another formed a separate union for a short while and tried to resist the ban called for in the men 's memorial . |
| 6 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
| 7 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 8 | She swallowed again and tried to ignore the terrible sharp pain that was twisting viciously into the side of her head . |
| 9 | From Glamis , her home for the moment , Groa moved about her concerns with the farm people and tried to ignore the rumble of wagons taking felled timber to the palisade , or men with pickaxes and shovels on their way to Dunsinane , where the old ring-fort below the watch-station had received new stone-and-earth walls , and shelters for folk as well as animals . |
| 10 | Charity tried to prise her eyes open , but , failing that , she pulled her pillow over her head , and tried to ignore the noise outside . |
| 11 | Charles had persuaded Miles to stop and tried ringing the bell on the gate . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 13 | Annoyed , he had reached across Ben and tried to touch the steering wheel and Ben had slapped his hand lightly . |
| 14 | Nine priests came down from Oxford and tried to lay the troubled soul to rest in a nearby pool . |
| 15 | As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it . |
| 16 | There the changing of the locks is easily to be explained by the needs of security ; and the fact that they paid the rates and settled the electricity bill and tried to improve the premises really takes the matter no further . |
| 17 | Police sealed off central East Berlin and tried to disperse the crowds . |
| 18 | From 1924 to 1930 , Dr Clarke maintains , he was mainly concerned with politics and policy , and tried to coordinate the two in a pincer movement on the Treasury . |
| 19 | He was a comical little man but as she smiled and tried to say the right things — ‘ Oh ! |
| 20 | He smelt their fetid breath and tried to control the shuddering of his body , fighting against the nauseous panic which curdled his stomach and made his legs so weak he longed to sit down . |
| 21 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 22 | He turned and tried to open the door again , but it was impossible to do so . |
| 23 | The plaintiff , a police officer , saw that highway users were in danger and tried to stop the horse . |
| 24 | Clarke , a substitute for Sanchez , robbed Stein and tried to steer the ball home but Chamberlain , playing only his second game since November , saved well . |
| 25 | Charles consumed most of the Valpolicella and tried to steer the conversation away from anything to do with Marius Steen . |
| 26 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 27 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 28 | The Central Authority were extremely worried about the transfer of lump sums to municipal coffers , or rebates paid to consumers , and tried to persuade the Government to act to prevent such abuses pending nationalisation . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he regarded himself as " deaf and dumb " , declared his support for the retention of this phrase and tried to counter the arguments for its abandonment . |
| 30 | And Grainne , who had her own might-have-beens , understood , and tried to make her stories of the Bright Palace interesting and amusing , and tried to minimise the rigours and the heartaches of exile on Innisfree . |