Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to erm a number of cities in Europe , of all the countries in Europe , and tried to gather the data to compare the quality of water in their countries , to the quality in ours . |
| 2 | Erm , tried to see the sheep . |
| 3 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
| 4 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It was now three thirty a.m. and he stopped on the swing bridge over the Berkeley to Gloucester canal and tried to hide the fish as much as possible . |
| 6 | PREMIER John Major tried to pass the buck in the Iraqgate scandal yesterday by blaming former defence procurement minister Alan Clark . |
| 7 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 8 | Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
| 10 | I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen . |
| 11 | She tried to imagine the people here sitting on their front doorsteps with a cup of tea and a newspaper like they did on her estate when the sun came out . |
| 12 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 13 | Secondly are we going to cave in to French blackmail again and what will it cost us , and thirdly if we 're going to have even more people going to Strasbourg or to Brussels or to anywhere else , is n't it about time we tried to save the people of Britain who are getting more and more worried and concerned and perplexed about E C , particularly in places like Harrow where they take a special interest in public affairs . |
| 14 | AS UNITED were booed off the pitch , a supporter leaned into the director 's box and tried to thrust a £5 note into the hands of Amer Midani , urging him to buy out the chairman , Martin Edwards . |
| 15 | Instead , the administration first tried to get a $16 billion stimulus package through Congress . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 17 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 18 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 19 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan — villain Jimmy Corkhill in the TV soap — grabbed three art gallery vandals after they tried to wreck a £500 painting . |
| 20 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |