Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 2 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 3 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 4 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 5 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 6 | Now , you 'll recall that last week I was talking about Darwin 's basic concept and I tried to explain it to you and to illustrate it to you . |
| 7 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 8 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 9 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 10 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 11 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 12 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 13 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 14 | I made tea , my ungloved hand sticking to the Trangia when I tried to move it from its snowdrift . |
| 15 | I tried to sell it to Ian |
| 16 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 17 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 18 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 19 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 20 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 21 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 22 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 24 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 25 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 27 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 28 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
| 29 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 30 | I tried to load it into erm Word and it completely screwed up . |