Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pron] tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were tears in the girls ' eyes as they tried to smile back . |
| 4 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 6 | Pursing her lips thoughtfully , she half closed her eyes as she tried to visualise how it might look . |
| 7 | Trent wiped the rain from his eyes as he tried to calculate speed and distance against the drift of the Zodiac . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Behind him the dragon roared and crashed through the bushes as it tried to turn around , but Hrun was running , running , with his gaze fixed on Liartes and a dead branch in his hands . |
| 10 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 15 | A WOULD-BE Royal Marine hit out at police officers as they tried to arrest him , a court heard . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time . |
| 18 | It landed on the floor where it lay on its back , its numerous legs doing cycling motions as it tried to right itself . |
| 19 | Ace had found herself inventing new techniques as she tried to use the shuttle 's processors to hack into the station 's maintenance systems , but there had been no indication that the station had even been receiving her signals . |
| 20 | Essentially , they were trying to examine the progress , or indeed lack of progress , of the immigrant newcomers as they tried to settle into this physical and social landscape . |
| 21 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 22 | Neighbours said she had Christopher in her arms as she tried to open the first-floor window . |
| 23 | She moistened her lips , wishing there was some way she could avoid his shrewd gaze , but his hands caught at her arms as she tried to turn away . |
| 24 | At one point , Dr Stroud had been reduced to tears as he tried to pull his gloves over his frost-bitten fingers . |
| 25 | Frantically negotiating the traffic , Sandra choked back tears as she tried to answer her daughter 's question . |
| 26 | But , in a sinister turn of events , firemen were stoned by gangs of youths as they tried to deal with several out-of-control bonfires on Merseyside . |
| 27 | Wishart rubbed his hands together , cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger . |
| 28 | Jacqueline , naked as a fish , ran screaming with delight from room to room , slithering out of her sisters ' hands as they tried to catch her . |
| 29 | He was in a rosy mood , kicking his legs and grabbing at her hands as she tried to get the material firmly round his podgy middle . |
| 30 | 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 . |