Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 2 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 3 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 4 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 5 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 6 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 7 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 8 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 9 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 10 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 11 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 12 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 13 | Your mouth goes hard and ugly as you try to choke back the tears , but it is honest . ’ |
| 14 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 15 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 16 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 17 | In Nicosia 's Eoka museum , pictures of British troops when they tried to fight off the separatists . |
| 18 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 19 | Then they tried to bring in the general . ’ |
| 20 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 21 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 22 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 23 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 24 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 25 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 26 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 27 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 28 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 29 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 30 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |