Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to explain that to the Sister . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 3 | We left the smell of the pub behind , and I tried to get some of the fresh air through my head . |
| 4 | I tried to get some of the Blu-Tak off . |
| 5 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 6 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 7 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 8 | erm We tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial . |