Example sentences of "try [verb] her [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , while Folly tried to gather her wits for a retort , he turned to the maid . |
| 2 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 3 | Avoiding their curious glances , she walked round to the hardware section and tried to shut her ears to the whispered conversations that suddenly broke out as soon as she was out of sight . |
| 4 | The vile weather had emptied the streets , and made them particularly frightening ; She tried to forget her fears of the unknown in hearty cursing of the rain . |
| 5 | How difficult it was to try to keep her feet on the ground , when inside she felt as if she were poised on the brink of a wild and wonderful adventure . |
| 6 | She could see the three robed figures , watching impassively as she tried to force her hands through the gold-flecked cloud that surrounded her . |
| 7 | Anne tried to get her fingers into the jamb , but could not . |
| 8 | Fear sliced through her and she tried to close her ears to the sound , but as if to mock her it was joined by another and another until the air was filled with a shaking roar . |
| 9 | She tried hooking her fingers round the door and pulling , but he only laughed and grabbing her , dragged her to him , kissing the part nearest his face , which happened to be the base of her neck . |
| 10 | And Grainne , who had her own might-have-beens , understood , and tried to make her stories of the Bright Palace interesting and amusing , and tried to minimise the rigours and the heartaches of exile on Innisfree . |
| 11 | Nutty paused , trying to marshal her convictions into the right words . |
| 12 | He started to play one and a look of pain flickered across Blanche 's face as if someone was trying to shave her legs with a blunt razor . |
| 13 | Juliet , trying to collect her senses after the unthinkable revelation she 'd overheard on Hunter Ward , shook her head . |
| 14 | There must surely be another , far stronger expression to describe this mayhem , Laura told herself , desperately trying to close her ears to the mind-blowing volume of noise around her . |
| 15 | Jess was still trying to order her thoughts as the carriage bowled down Park Street and turned into Frog Lane on the afternoon of that same day . |
| 16 | IN A LITTER of sleeping bags on the floor of the Gethsemane Church in East Berlin , Irene Schwidurski , who had not taken any solid food for four days , was trying to explain her reasons to a Western journalist , with the help of a pocket dictionary . |