Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd like it better if I tried to make people happy , would n't you ? |
| 4 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 5 | Ray , who runs a local lost and found bureau for the National Petwatch organisation , took the dog in while he tried to trace the owner . |
| 6 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 7 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 8 | They said one Pakistani soldier , five of his countrymen and three Americans were injured in the three-hour clash , the worst since the weekend killing of seven Nigerian troops trapped by a mob and then gunned down as they tried to flee . |
| 9 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 10 | The officer was run down as he tried to wave Haytons motorcycle into a layby on the A5 near Weedon in Northamptonshire . |
| 11 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 12 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 13 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 14 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 15 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 16 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 17 | ‘ The facts that we were quarrelling , that you did jump out of the car and refused to get back in when I tried to persuade you . |
| 18 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 19 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 20 | She smiled at him but pulled away when he tried to kiss her . |
| 21 | Sally-Anne had one pain , one memory of which she dared not even think for fear that she would lose all command of herself , one memory which she always pushed away when it tried to attack her . |
| 22 | Her hands were sore from beating against the hard wood , and she rubbed them absently as she tried to figure out what was going on . |
| 23 | ‘ No ! ’ she broke in desperately as she tried to wriggle away . |
| 24 | Driven into a corner , she panicked , her arms flailing desperately as she tried to wrench herself free , but he held on tight . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had a picture of himself being friendly and relaxed — normal , like the others ; he wanted to be popular , or at least to have one friend , but the ideal withered as soon as he tried to achieve it . |
| 27 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 28 | She felt that her teeth would come out altogether if she tried to bite Fleury 's cake . |
| 29 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 30 | He had a long-life lead on and I tried to grab the long-life lead it burnt all my hand and he tried to attack the pit bull . |