Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 2 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 3 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 4 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 5 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 6 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 7 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 8 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 9 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 10 | They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus . |
| 11 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 12 | Tried to see past the antipathy he always aroused in her . |
| 13 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 14 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 15 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 16 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 17 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 18 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 19 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 20 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 22 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 23 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 24 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 25 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 26 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 27 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 28 | They tried to leap over the sandbags , but were too slow . |
| 29 | Grandparents , schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children , to send messages of love and support . |
| 30 | The school found some support for their interpretation of Mrs Peel 's behaviour from a community nurse who tried to work with the family : ‘ She thinks there 's evidence of sexual abuse ; soiling , language and sexually overt behaviour . ’ |