Example sentences of "they tried [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 2 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 3 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 4 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 5 | They tried to drive the adult peasants into paying their taxes , instead of coaxing them . |
| 6 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 7 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 8 | As the number of these specialists increased , they tried to use the idea of evolution as a means of giving their disciplines a vague unity , thus creating the first science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 9 | The dragon-lady 's in a sober tizzy , eh ? , because they tried to give a bucket of beer to the horse . |
| 10 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 11 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane last year , did n't they , sir ? |
| 12 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane ! |
| 13 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane . |
| 14 | They tried to drink the water , which made them sick , and had a go at their own urine until that too simply ran out . |
| 15 | Dubos had been a pupil of Waksman , and together they tried to organize a round table discussion at the meetings of the Society of American Bacteriologists in Saint Louis during Christmas 1940 , on the subject of the production of antibacterial substances by micro-organisms . |
| 16 | THE UVF have admitted they tried to kill a Protestant man in east Belfast last night . |
| 17 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 18 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 19 | I think they tried to persuade the landlords to bring another . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 22 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 23 | UEFA 's appeals committee will hear Tbilisi deny that they tried to bribe the referee and linesmen before the first leg in Georgia three weeks ago . |
| 24 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 25 | and they tried to take the bloody ticket off me . |
| 26 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 27 | What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so . |
| 28 | They tried to enlarge the territory of their state , which was perhaps essential if they were to survive . |
| 29 | They tried to force an amendment , to extend the Sunday closing time from two to three p.m . |
| 30 | They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory . |