Example sentences of "[adv] they tried [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they tried to phone me on Friday afternoon but I was out swimming . |
| 2 | So they tried to revive their warlike spirits , while the women rubbed and slapped their heavy limbs and applied ointments to the survivors ' burns and bruises . |
| 3 | Waterman was secretly working with a Midlands band called Abracadabra on a version of the Abba classic Dancing Queen and when the Swedish group 's record company found out they tried to spoil his plans . |
| 4 | Today they tried to reconstruct what they think might have been his movements before the disappearance . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ When we played last time we did n't have any problem , but here they tried to unsettle us because they were really frustrated . |
| 6 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 7 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 8 | There they tried to kill me . |
| 9 | Instead they tried to take their minds off the poster campaign by providing weekend entertainment . |
| 10 | I know why they tried to kill you . |