Example sentences of "[coord] attempted [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On four occasions the appellant accosted a woman in the street , threatened her with violence , on three occasions carrying a knife , and stole or attempted to steal the victim 's purse . |
| 2 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 3 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 4 | Nazism appealed to the romanticism of the German people and attempted to re-create the rituals and folklore of its pagan past . |
| 5 | Both Byzantium and Rome felt themselves threatened and attempted to suppress the Bogomils . |
| 6 | The right wing of the party took this to heart : Gaitskell talked of the need to shed Labour 's ‘ cloth cap ’ image and attempted to ditch the famous clause four of the party constitution , the charter for nationalisation , as an electoral liability . |
| 7 | PC Yallop waded out and attempted to open the nearside door . |
| 8 | Some Christian families saw the advantage of having a son who was a power at court , and attempted to bribe the recruiting officers — the yaya-başis — to take one of their own . |
| 9 | These developments of the soil system were achieved within soil science but adoption and development of the approach in physical geography was achieved by Huggett ( 1975 ) when he extended the catena approach to the drainage basin , which he used as the basis for a model of the soil system , and attempted to simulate the flux of plasmic material in an idealized basin . |
| 10 | I kept a diary of events and attempted to chart the process by which 6-year-old Balbinder was removed from mainstream education . |
| 11 | So far I have written about what may be carried ‘ in the mind ’ of workers and managers and attempted to see the political implications of the relations that ensue . |
| 12 | I projected the child 's face into his own vanished future and attempted to see the man he would have become , the man I intend to find . ’ |
| 13 | I applied full power and attempted to lift the aircraft off the ground and over the dyke . |
| 14 | SIR — and attempted to strengthen the link between the Chicxulub structure and the Cretaceous/Tertiary ( K/T ) boundary by comparing their reconstructed Chicxulub Y6N17 groundmass compositions with typical igneous fractionation trends and impact glasses from the K/T boundary in Haiti . |
| 15 | Folly pushed herself reluctantly up in bed and attempted to wipe the sleep from her eyes . |
| 16 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 17 | ‘ I paddled away from the sinking helicopter and attempted to pull the zipper up . |
| 18 | In 1916 he was co-opted on to the trench fever committee of the War Office , and attempted to discover the causal organism of the fever . |
| 19 | A drama panel was set up in 1974 , in order to consider schemes which avoided the polarization of practical courses on the one hand , and the literary aspects of dramatic art on the other hand , and attempted to integrate the two . |
| 20 | My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames . |
| 21 | The assessment panel agreed to Tony 's enrolment in St Augustine 's and attempted to co-ordinate the help which could be provided by the different agencies . |
| 22 | ‘ He thereafter summoned further medical assistance , ensuring that a doctor was called , and attempted to secure the support of a helicopter to remove the casualty to hospital . ’ |
| 23 | He began mumbling in Latin , and attempted to make the sign of the Cross . |
| 24 | If the Minister attended and attempted to make the type of speech that he made here he would be laughed at . |
| 25 | Interviews with the director ( in City Limits and Time Out ) and reviews in film journals further emphasized aesthetic merits and attempted to place the film within an artistic-cinematic canon — dare one mention the greatest of all directors , Bresson ? |
| 26 | On the weekend of Feb. 7-9 some 40 people were killed and 300 wounded nationwide as FIS activists and youths apparently without any marked party affiliation stoned members of the National Gendamerie and the army , erected barricades and attempted to prevent the arrests of imams . |