Example sentences of "she try [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 2 | He would be seeing Caterina again , with her sweet face like a ripe apricot and her almond eyes , and he laughed when he remembered her childish stumblings as she tried to repeat the message to the letter . |
| 3 | Diplomatically , she tried to shift the conversation to firmer ground . |
| 4 | She tried to open the door to the storage-room , but twice the wind blew it out of her hands . |
| 5 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |