Example sentences of "[noun prp] try [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later , installed in the office , a small room looking out on to the quarantine quarters , Sophie tried to find a topic of conversation that would keep things on a professional basis . |
| 2 | Me and Phil , the roadie , even went on this midnight jaunt from Manchester to Guildford to try to steal the master tapes of the LP . |
| 3 | Kelly tried to put the self-doubt from her mind . |
| 4 | There is a good account of the way in which the TPLF tried to improve the conditions of women by allowing them to form associations such as the Adi Hageray Women 's Association . |
| 5 | Fernando tried to slow the pace and Ruth clung to him breathlessly . |
| 6 | Even in her hopelessly weakened condition , Maldita had lashed out when Perdita tried to put a rug on her . |
| 7 | As Gower tried to bury the misery of rejection in the preparations for his wedding to Thorrun Nash in Winchester Cathedral in a fortnight , he admitted : ‘ My words have come back to haunt me . ’ |
| 8 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 9 | When Nintendo tried to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team a huge row broke out over possible Japanese ownership . |
| 10 | The airline 's purchase of a 30% stake and management control of Aerolineas Argentinas and its domestic-airline subsidiary , Austral , was plagued by disagreements with local investors and by strikes when Iberia tried to trim the group 's bloated labour force . |
| 11 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 12 | Anne and Sarah tried to keep the peace but Miss Meers was a slave driver , and would never allow them to stand still for a moment . |
| 13 | The year after this Act was passed , Tory MP Winston Churchill tried to extend the scope of the Obscene Publications Act so that it would apply to television . |
| 14 | Isabel tried to stifle a pang at the thought that Guy had left instructions for their safety with his sister and not his wife . |
| 15 | With four minutes to go Wivenhoe almost snatched a late consolation when Westwood tried to clear a back pass but his kick only found Collins , whose shot hit the post . |
| 16 | Kant tried to link the idea of numerically identical particulars with the idea of one space and one time , both conceived by him as the a priori forms of our intuition . |
| 17 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 18 | Early in the Algerian War Camus tried to arrange a truce , but after the failure of this initiative and the disappearance of any middle ground between the FLN-led Muslims and the French pieds noirs , he maintained a besieged mentality . |
| 19 | After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester 's grant . |
| 20 | After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester 's grant . |
| 21 | Last June David Ennals tried to introduce an amendment to the Mental Health Act which would have allowed nurses to withdraw from ECT . |
| 22 | When they came into contact with the rock face , Corti tried to bite the snow , saying , ‘ Hungry . ’ |
| 23 | The next few hours were spent in a daze while Lucy tried to disentangle the confusion in her bewildered mind . |
| 24 | ‘ The PLO tried to sabotage the departure of the Muslims . |
| 25 | Sylvie tried to delay the moment of her departure . |
| 26 | As in the case of Cubism , Apollinaire tried to give the word as much of an all-inclusive meaning as possible : ‘ Orphism has already been talked about a great deal . |
| 27 | Scott tried to arrange a counter address to Palmerston and obtained eighteen or nineteen names , but ‘ the Gothic architects did not come forward in sufficient force to make it worth while ’ . |
| 28 | Kruger tried to brush the dart from his robe . |
| 29 | On Jan 4 Swamy apologized to the House , while Chandra Shekhar tried to defuse the crisis for his government by assuring MPs that Parliament was supreme and that the Speaker 's rights would be protected . |
| 30 | Within five minutes he had gone , leaving Edward to try to decipher the hieroglyphics of his prescriptions . |