Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 2 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 5 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 6 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 7 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 8 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 9 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 10 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 11 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 12 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 13 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 14 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 15 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 16 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 17 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 18 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 19 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 20 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 21 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 22 | It felt like Checkpoint Charlie , but in fact no one tried to stop you except the alkies lurching up off their piss-stained benches with some story about needing the bus fare back home to Sheffield . |
| 23 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 24 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 25 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 27 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 28 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 29 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 30 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |