Example sentences of "[adv] tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames . |
| 2 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 3 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 4 | They believe she later tried to walk down the mountain , lost her way and fell to her death . |
| 5 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 6 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |