Example sentences of "tried [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 2 | Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt . |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
| 4 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 5 | Instead , the administration first tried to get a $16 billion stimulus package through Congress . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 7 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 8 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan — villain Jimmy Corkhill in the TV soap — grabbed three art gallery vandals after they tried to wreck a £500 painting . |
| 9 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |