Example sentences of "tried [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , an expert panel of the august National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) tried to weave some consistency into cancer risk assessment . |
| 2 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 3 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 5 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 6 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 7 | The Chief Priest and the whole council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death . |
| 8 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 9 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 10 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 11 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 12 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 13 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 14 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 15 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 16 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 19 | The GCE and CSE examinations were conducted by a variety of Boards and , although subject experts tried to judge some standard of achievement , it was basically a normative assessment i.e. the same percentage pass the examination each year . |
| 20 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 21 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 22 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 23 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 24 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 25 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 26 | We always tried to get some payment to them before a term started |
| 27 | Manescu leaned forward , tried to get some impression of the shape behind the glass . |
| 28 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 29 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 30 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |