Example sentences of "he tried [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 2 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 3 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 4 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 5 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 6 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 7 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 8 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 9 | In addition he tried to discover any other royal figures , in order to eliminate potential rivals . |
| 10 | He tried to read some deeper personal message into it . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 12 | He tried to molest some poor girl at the Shakespeare School and got thrown out . |
| 13 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 14 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 15 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 16 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 17 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 18 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 19 | Again and again he tried to recreate that moment . |
| 20 | Joseph 's face was pale and his hands were trembling , but he tried to hide this by gripping his rifle tightly as the others gathered around them . |
| 21 | He tried to recall some of Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's dos and donts . |
| 22 | He tried to knock some aside but they clung to his fingers and a spider danced across his knuckles and disappeared up his sleeve . |