Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
| 32 | Secondly , many of the writers who established sociology took the notion of evolution from Darwinian biology , and tried to see the part played by man 's societies and cultures in the light of this . |
| 33 | Erm , tried to see the sheep . |
| 34 | I tried to see the expression on his face , but it was too dark . |
| 35 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The State tried to expropriate the produce even of peasants , gardens , but native cunning — bargaining with , and even bribing , officials of dubious enthusiasm for the Party line — often meant that rural households could escape from the worst deprivations of the towns . |
| 38 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 39 | She wore brown sandals , and tried to arrange the cross-gartering over two scabs where she 'd cut herself shaving . |
| 40 | As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England . |
| 41 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 42 | The slaughterhouse of the capital city tried to establish the origins of the animals it accepted , but with little success . |
| 43 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 44 | Police were last night waiting to examine the wreckage of the car , a Vauxhall Cavalier , as they tried to establish the cause of the accident . |
| 45 | Fire investigators say arsonists built a bonfire with desks and chairs and tried to smash the burglar alarm at the Penwood First School . |
| 46 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 47 | They tried to cloud the issue even further by mixing the question of L M S with the reforms which my group brought in while we were in control of the Council which is in stark contrast to the true situation . |
| 48 | But some nineteenth-century naturalists tried to minimize the significance of adaptation . |
| 49 | Alex tried to minimize the publicity to protect his parents . ’ |
| 50 | Although President Carlos Saúl Menem tried to minimize the scale of the defeat , it was generally seen as a severe reverse both for his government and for menemismo , a flamboyant style of administration now associated with scandal and corruption [ see pp. 37959 ; 38144 ; 38674 ; 38719 ] . |
| 51 | Both were directed towards the formalist reading of literary texts , and some anglophone academics tried to minimize the strangeness of French imports by saying that la nouvelle critique was only offering a new version of what had long been familiar in the Anglo-American academy . |
| 52 | With the UN Earth Summit due to open in Rio in early June , the government tried to minimize the impact of the crisis , describing it as a domestic matter . |
| 53 | Some ingrates and irresponsible rumour-mongers tried to implicate the Eladeldi in these abrupt disappearances , which made no sense at all . |
| 54 | The Emperor , who incidentally had wanted to pardon Orsini and his accomplice , only yielding to his ministers ' demand for execution when they pointed out that innocent people had been killed , tried to repair the damage done to the Entente . |
| 55 | During the same period Mosley tried to increase the quality of his followers too . |
| 56 | He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron . |
| 57 | Erm so the Communist Party , to try to counter this sort of erm advance of the rich peasant economy which they saw was getting a bit too far , tried to encourage the formation of mutual aid teams erm but they were very , there were problems in that in erm the implementation of this because peasants were unwilling to share their tools , they were n't compensated for it . |
| 58 | In each case the teacher tried to encourage the use also of ‘ opposites ’ ; Steven is taller than Linda — Linda is shorter than Steven . |
| 59 | ‘ 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 . |
| 60 | The two hundred sheep jostled and complained and tried to jump the queue that stretched deep into an olive grove . |