Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [to-vb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 4 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 5 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 6 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 7 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |