Example sentences of "tried [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AAA tried during the winter months to bring an end to the hostility between Frank Dick and me . |
| 2 | Hundreds of actresses tried for the part in the film which is currently in pre-production in Hollywood . |
| 3 | and somehow I do n't know how , but somehow they always knew when the train was being loaded up with tanks and then that was the night we would get a raid and of course , you see , they all ra tried for the station . |
| 4 | From 1959 to 1960 a variety of steam shunters were used and tried in the Works ( from Bletchley Shed ) , but none were successful . |
| 5 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |
| 6 | there 's a greater pressure of population therefore are you saying that , that land reform might at least on the model tried in the north , might not yield any economic benefits |
| 7 | Down the third row of stones he tried in the garden of remembrance , he found the spot where Heather had raised the camera to her eye and captured the second image in the sequence he was seeking to follow . |
| 8 | He had been one of the most influential members of Hong Kong 's financial community and was one of the most prominent figures ever tried in the colony . |
| 9 | The Shah detested the way in which mossadeq rather than he was coming to symbolize Iran , and he tried in the summer of 1952 to remove him from office . |
| 10 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 11 | One of his favourite instances is the scene in On the Waterfront when Brando , thinking he was between takes , idly tried on the glove that Eva Marie Saint had dropped . |
| 12 | At Matilda 's insistence she tried on the gown then and there , even forgetting her tattered shift until her old dress was whisked away . |
| 13 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 14 | I made mistakes and sweated over them , but tried on the whole to err on the side of caution . |
| 15 | It was n't real till it was let out and tried on the air and approved . |
| 16 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 17 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 18 | As she walked away from him he suffered a stroke , and Alizon was later arrested and tried on the charge that she ‘ practised , exercised and used her devilish and wicked arts ’ and that by these she ‘ had him lamed so that his body wasted and consumed away ’ . |
| 19 | The exception is impeachment by which an official may be charged by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate . |