Example sentences of "tried [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |
| 2 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 3 | The new Civil Code tried to adjust this anomaly by laying down that the right of ownership should lapse at the same time that the right of revendication lapses . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , those of them that tried to reverse this fate have sometimes prospered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , a problem arose when people tried to extend this independence of the speed of the observer to the laws that govern the motion of light . |
| 7 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 8 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 9 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 10 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the Tsarist period the Slavophils , Dostoevsky , Tolstoy , and others tried to bridge this gulf . |
| 12 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 13 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 14 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 15 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 16 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 17 | Erm , I tried to ring this lady . |
| 18 | One German clerk , rather foolishly perhaps , tried to disarm this Troop officer and was shot for his indiscretion ; other Germans were captured and a few shot during the brisk action . |
| 19 | Giles tried to refuse this gift , but the old man only laughed and smiled . |
| 20 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |
| 21 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 22 | Throughout the 1980s , the government tried to achieve this aim through a variety of measures . |