Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |
| 2 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 3 | Yesterday , the unyielding men of terror tried to claim the province 's 3,001st victim . |
| 4 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 5 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 6 | A further court case , in which Lothar Neethling from the forensic laboratory , now a lieutenant-general and number three in the South African Police , tried to sue a newspaper for calling him a poisoner , showed Coetzee to be a reliable and accurate witness . |
| 7 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 8 | The swarm struck after Jack Ibbs tried to swat a queen bee from his cab in a lay-by in Upavon , Wilts . |
| 9 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 10 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 11 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 12 | In 1913 Lord Selborne tried to mount a campaign against the sale of honours but he had a lukewarm response : Salisbury thought it would not achieve anything useful , Lansdowne urged that the views of the party organizers should be sought , and Law urged him " not to obscure the Marconi issue " . |
| 13 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 14 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 15 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |
| 16 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 17 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 18 | Rostov walked a little way off , squatted on his heels on the grass , and tried to pretend a calm he did not feel . |
| 19 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |
| 20 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 21 | Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap . |
| 22 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 23 | To further aggrandize himself , he tried to supplant the captain as our host . |
| 24 | Some Boards tried to preserve a sense of identity , basing districts on pre-nationalisation undertakings ( encouraging rivalry between them ) , while others aimed to blur old loyalties in merged districts , and encouraged increased cooperation between them . |
| 25 | I tried to hit the nose but my arm did n't move . |
| 26 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 27 | I had to comply , and so , to lessen my growing awareness of danger , I tried to slacken the contact my arms were making with his smooth chubby hurdies . |
| 28 | A series of agreements from 1898 onwards tried to channel the tension between the two powers along ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ lines , i.e. Russia was to have the dominant interest in Manchuria , while Japan dominated in Korea . |
| 29 | She tried to drive the thought from her mind , feeling an all-too familiar surge of anger and sorrow . |
| 30 | They tried to drive the adult peasants into paying their taxes , instead of coaxing them . |