Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to draw G.P. from memory again today . |
| 2 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |
| 3 | She really was enchanting , very earnest as she tried to save Andrew from embarrassment . |
| 4 | Twice she tried to get water to Midnight . |
| 5 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 6 | We tried to make suggestions for character developments , all of which they would n't allow . |
| 7 | The weekly-paid Greater Glasgow Health Board employees first discovered the bank 's mistake when they tried to withdraw money from cash machines . |
| 8 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 9 | A STOWAWAY who jumped ship was caught when he tried to call relatives in North Africa from a motorway phone . |
| 10 | She liked the way his mind went back and back in layers : how he tried to justify emotion with reason . |
| 11 | The wind rose again , and again he tried to combine safety with dignity , thinking of the watchers below . |
| 12 | The young art student was about nineteen when he died ; he had worked hard on the dramatic murals in the studio and then he tried mixing drugs with drink and that was fatal . |