Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 6 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 7 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 8 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 9 | We left the smell of the pub behind , and I tried to get some of the fresh air through my head . |
| 10 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 11 | I tried to get some of the Blu-Tak off . |
| 12 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 13 | I tried to absorb some of Ryan 's confidence . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 15 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 16 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 17 | so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge |
| 18 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 19 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 20 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 21 | She tried to remember some of her stories and put those in the Diary too . |
| 22 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 23 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 24 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 25 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 26 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 27 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 28 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 29 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 30 | erm We tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial . |