Example sentences of "[noun prp] try [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 2 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 3 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 4 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 5 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 6 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 7 | Michael Atherton ( 37 ) , and especially Chris Lewis ( 49 ) , also played their part in stands of 58 and 93 respectively with Hick as England tried to salvage something from a Test series they have already lost 2-0 . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 9 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 10 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 11 | Crilly tries to coax me into the booth but I shrug out from under his arms and make an excuse about the family . |
| 12 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 13 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 14 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 15 | Susan trying to kiss me on the arse right and I fucking farted ! |
| 16 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 17 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 18 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 19 | Luke tried to steer her across the road , but she turned on him , her eyes heavy with shadows , her face pale and strained . |
| 20 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |