Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 2 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 3 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 4 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 5 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 7 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 8 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 9 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |
| 10 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 11 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 12 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 13 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 14 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 15 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 16 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 17 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |
| 18 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 19 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 20 | She tried to lean on the field . |
| 21 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 22 | But more often than not she would climb the stairs — however many flights there might be — as she felt panic rising within her as soon as she tried to step into the lift . |
| 23 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 24 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 25 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 26 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 27 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 28 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |
| 29 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 30 | She tried to tear off the balaclava , but it was tied around the neck , so in her shame and fear she attempted to shield her body with her handcuffed arms . |