Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] the [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 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 10 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 11 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 12 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 13 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 14 | Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap . |
| 15 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 16 | To further aggrandize himself , he tried to supplant the captain as our host . |
| 17 | I tried to hit the nose but my arm did n't move . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She tried to drive the thought from her mind , feeling an all-too familiar surge of anger and sorrow . |
| 21 | They tried to drive the adult peasants into paying their taxes , instead of coaxing them . |
| 22 | The two students who were watching over her told her very sensibly that if she tried to drive the car she 'd probably kill herself . |
| 23 | David Lodge , whose Changing Places ( 1975 ) and Small World ( 1984 ) are among the best of the Higher Education narratives , admits that Nice Work was the novel with which he consciously tried to lose the name of campus novelist . |
| 24 | She tried to gather the pages into order . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She tried to light the gas fire but dropped the matches all over the hearthrug . |
| 27 | When Eleanor spoke at Cooper Union police entered the crowd and tried to disrupt the meeting . |
| 28 | Some people who later tried to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons experiment — before full details were circulated thought that the specific form of electrolyte was not important and guessed its form incorrectly . |
| 29 | In several talks given by myself in both English and Burmese , I tried to emphasise the part which Buddhism could play in the national life . |
| 30 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |