Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |
| 2 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 3 | Yesterday , the unyielding men of terror tried to claim the province 's 3,001st victim . |
| 4 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 5 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 6 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 7 | The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding . |
| 8 | As the wheels skidded on the edge of the precipice a storm tried to hurl the coach and her family down the mountainside . |
| 9 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 10 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 11 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 12 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 13 | Dredge tried to hog the credit , but it 's clear to me where it really belongs . |
| 14 | It reluctantly accepted many of Gorbachev 's proposed reforms ( it had no alternative to offer , apart from more of the policies of the past — and no effective alternative leader ) , but conservatives with vested interests tried to restore the status quo in the 1991 coup attempt . |
| 15 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 16 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 17 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 18 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 19 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 20 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 21 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 22 | Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap . |
| 23 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 24 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 25 | To further aggrandize himself , he tried to supplant the captain as our host . |
| 26 | I tried to hit the nose but my arm did n't move . |
| 27 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 28 | He was surprised to find that the medical officer was not resident at the hospital , ‘ … my wife and I , and a friend ( the wife of a highly-placed London County Council Official ) tried to interview the medical officer at his home ’ . |
| 29 | I had to comply , and so , to lessen my growing awareness of danger , I tried to slacken the contact my arms were making with his smooth chubby hurdies . |
| 30 | A series of agreements from 1898 onwards tried to channel the tension between the two powers along ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ lines , i.e. Russia was to have the dominant interest in Manchuria , while Japan dominated in Korea . |