Example sentences of "[pron] tried [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 3 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 5 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 6 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 7 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 8 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 9 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 10 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 11 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 12 | She tried to jolly herself into enthusiasm . |
| 13 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 14 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 15 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 16 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 17 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 18 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 19 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 20 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 21 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 22 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 23 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 24 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 25 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 26 | He tried to keep himself to himself but for years and years he had windows broken , excrement and rubbish was dumped in his garden and he would be woken in the early hours by children as young as 12 and 13 throwing stones at his window . |
| 27 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 28 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 29 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 30 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |