Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 2 | Tried to sit on basket . |
| 3 | Dudley tried to sink into obscurity . |
| 4 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 5 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 6 | When money became scarce , he tried to go on welfare , but the woman official said , ‘ What 's your problem , Mr Webb ? |
| 7 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 8 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 9 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 10 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 11 | She 'd never make it if she tried to go by bus . |
| 12 | Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly . |
| 13 | Rekhi says that Novell tried to work with Santa Cruz Operation on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun Microsystems Inc to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 14 | We also tried to work with housewives , usually the wives of trade unionists . |
| 15 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 16 | It gave me , I confess to you frankly , many hours of quiet grief , which I tried to bear with philosophy . |
| 17 | One of the men tried to jump on board , but could n't make it as the Jeep was travelling too fast . |
| 18 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 19 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 20 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 21 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 22 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 23 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 24 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 25 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 26 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 27 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 28 | Our hospitals would be empty if we tried to discriminate between self-induced or even partially self-induced illnesses , and naturally developed diseases . |
| 29 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 30 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |