Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The swarm struck after Jack Ibbs tried to swat a queen bee from his cab in a lay-by in Upavon , Wilts . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rostov walked a little way off , squatted on his heels on the grass , and tried to pretend a calm he did not feel . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A pensioner is in hospital with serious burns after her house exploded as she tried to light a gas fire . |
| 11 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 12 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
| 13 | During 1990 Hoylake withdrew its bid for BAT , partly because of problems encountered with the US regulatory authorities when it tried to arrange a buyer for BAT 's US insurance business . |
| 14 | Early in the Algerian War Camus tried to arrange a truce , but after the failure of this initiative and the disappearance of any middle ground between the FLN-led Muslims and the French pieds noirs , he maintained a besieged mentality . |
| 15 | Scott tried to arrange a counter address to Palmerston and obtained eighteen or nineteen names , but ‘ the Gothic architects did not come forward in sufficient force to make it worth while ’ . |
| 16 | When in 92 B.C. somebody tried to establish a school of eloquence in Latin — presumably to serve some popularis cause — the censors of the day were firmly against it ; they declared themselves in favour of Greek , as against Latin , rhetoric ( Suet . |
| 17 | I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters . |
| 18 | Er they tried to write a rider to bypass it completely , but I do n't know whether that is sound . |
| 19 | Teacher training also tried to provide a methodology and techniques to deal with rural multi-grade schools , which require different skills from those in single grade teaching . |
| 20 | What is indisputable is that the Meiji government , having abolished the official status system of the Tokugawa , tried to impose a permutation of the Tokugawa social ethos , and this ideal sought a fusion of social structure and social morality . |
| 21 | While working at the cinema , for instance , he tried to repair a cistern and ended up flooding the place . |
| 22 | He tried to scream a warning to his nightmare self : ‘ No , do n't go in there ! |
| 23 | After the collapse of the plot Montgomerie fled to London , but he continued to engage in Jacobite intrigue , and in late 1691 he tried to encourage a rising of Presbyterian extremists in the south-western lowlands . |
| 24 | In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida . |
| 25 | But when he tried to stand a cry of pain escaped him and he reached for the wall of the stables for support . |
| 26 | He 's gone well here Agnew tried to curl a shot in it was blocked back to Ormanroyd now Lewis . |
| 27 | Ali-Ashgar Ahani , 27 , an Iranian hunter , tried to catch a snake alive near Tehran by pressing the butt of his shotgun behind its head . |
| 28 | Sandison tried to catch a glimpse of her feet but found it difficult . |
| 29 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 30 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |