Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 2 | I tried to arrange guides on the drum sander but quickly gave up . |
| 3 | The more I tried to achieve clarity on the monstrous event in this hour , the more the shame of indignation and disgrace burned in my brow . |
| 4 | I tried to make conversation with the three silent people round the table . |
| 5 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 6 | It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act . |
| 7 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |
| 8 | She tried to become flat as the sheet , to stop breathing . |
| 9 | Isabel stood as though chained to the floor , her heart galloping out of control like a runaway steed as she tried to make sense of the unholy din . |
| 10 | Mrs Hitchcock 's other daughter Stella watched in horror as her mother was slashed on the arms and face as she tried to protect Kelly from the attack . |
| 11 | ‘ Helena screamed for someone to help as she tried to drag Michael from the of the road . |
| 12 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 13 | The tensions induced by the conflicts between Marxism versus Liberalism and Liberalism versus corporatism are incarnated in the figure of Salvador Allende , who tried to introduce socialism on the basis of populist support and subsequently refused to sacrifice his belief in ‘ constitutionalism ’ until it was too late to save his revolution . |
| 14 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 16 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 17 | We tried to get witnesses for the defence , but they ail confirmed that he had killed the DO on purpose . |
| 18 | They tried to ascertain news of the tsar and his family , but to no avail . |
| 19 | and he was soaked , he actually had tried first then he went round the back , the back door was closed so he tried to take shelter under the oil tank |
| 20 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 21 | In 1990 he tried to register ownership of the land but his claim was opposed by the county council and residents . |
| 22 | He tried to export revolution to the rest of Latin America , while Leonid Brezhnev preferred to deal with established governments . |
| 23 | ‘ She has to consider her schooling you know , ’ he tried to tell Noreen above the noise of a roomful of O'Neils . |
| 24 | As he tried to grab hold of the beautifully-lit see-through material held by the other men in the show , he called out , ‘ Give me a bit ! |
| 25 | Yes , said his critics , but it was a different story if anyone tried to get access to the information behind those methods . |
| 26 | It tried to introduce laws against the trades unions . |