Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time . |
| 9 | At one point , Dr Stroud had been reduced to tears as he tried to pull his gloves over his frost-bitten fingers . |
| 10 | Wishart rubbed his hands together , cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger . |
| 11 | As soon as de Warenne had left , Edward put his face in his hands as he tried to control both his anger and his terror . |
| 12 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 13 | He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith . |
| 14 | A 46-six-year old father of three died after his booby-trapped car exploded and burst into flames as he tried to leave Castle Street car park on April 6 1991 . |
| 15 | Mushtaq , bowling with the breeze behind him , dispatched Hick with a perfect legbreak and then hit Smith 's stumps as he tried to glance , a round-the-legs dismissal almost to rank in shuddering significance for England with Peter May 's notorious ‘ b Benaud 0 ’ at Manchester in 1961 . |
| 16 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 17 | Graham sat in the deserted dining car for some time after regaining consciousness , his trembling fingers gently massaging his temples as he tried to overcome the throbbing in his head . |