Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately she was as bitchy as she was beautiful , lashing out with teeth and hooves at any human who came near her , and bucking them off if they tried to get on her back . |
| 7 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 8 | FURIOUS relatives were grappled to a courtroom floor yesterday as they tried to attack a killer joyrider . |
| 9 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 10 | Then as they tried to defend their tiny total , he put down two difficult slip catches . |
| 11 | Swansea deserved to win because , hard though they tried to disguise it , they actually were the better side , and in Robert Jones and the accomplished Tony Clement , they had half-backs capable of rising above the long grass slicked by rain and the inevitable slippery ball . |
| 12 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |