Example sentences of "[vb past] try [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 2 | Jack kept trying to get above the cloud — daybreak still saw them shrouded in blackness . |
| 3 | He did trying to get off the drink . |
| 4 | The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping . |
| 5 | Lord Jenkins was critical of the way the college governors had tried to push through the change without consulting under-graduates . |
| 6 | Tommy Gilmour , Clinton 's manager , said last night : ‘ Pat had tried to go through the pain barrier and keep his injury from me but I have taken the decision to withdraw him after consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 7 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 8 | Edward , fighting the thought , imagined decay ; Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape . |
| 9 | It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution . |
| 10 | It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , in a series of moves capped by the Education Reform Act and the proposals for a national ( or , as some were quick to point out , national ist ) curriculum , the Conservative government had effectively challenged and undermined the fragile liberal consensus Swann had tried to erect in the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | Da Silva said he had tried to reason with the fans but they had drawn guns . |
| 13 | It was the elderly widow of the village-school caretaker , whom the council had tried to evict from the flat that went with her husband 's job . |
| 14 | He had tried to economize with the size and quality and the envelopes were in danger of splitting . |
| 15 | Her eyes were searching the corners , scanning the farthest recesses of the dungeon that someone had tried to make into the semblance of a comfortable apartment . |
| 16 | Mungo closed his eyes , summoning back the image he had tried to capture in the barrow . |
| 17 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 18 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |