Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 32 | She tried to walk over the rich green grass towards them , but her feet seemed glued in place . |
| 33 | But more often than not she would climb the stairs — however many flights there might be — as she felt panic rising within her as soon as she tried to step into the lift . |
| 34 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 35 | Applying power , I forgot about the ‘ tail low ’ advice and she tried to dart off the left side of the runway before some firm right boot put us back in line for another go . |
| 36 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 37 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 38 | Abashed , she tried to shrink behind the sacrificial stone , and hid her eyes . |
| 39 | She tried to think of the simplest way of conveying this . |
| 40 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 41 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 42 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |
| 43 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 44 | She tried to tear off the balaclava , but it was tied around the neck , so in her shame and fear she attempted to shield her body with her handcuffed arms . |
| 45 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |
| 46 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 47 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 48 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 49 | The school found some support for their interpretation of Mrs Peel 's behaviour from a community nurse who tried to work with the family : ‘ She thinks there 's evidence of sexual abuse ; soiling , language and sexually overt behaviour . ’ |
| 50 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 51 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 52 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 53 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 54 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 55 | A guard kicked away a dog who tried to run under the scaffold to lick the dripping blood . |
| 56 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 57 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 58 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 59 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 60 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |