Example sentences of "[noun sg] tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music industry tried to interfere with the sale of twin cassette music centres in CBS Songs Ltd. v Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc [ 1988 ] , on the basis that , by the sale and advertising of these machines , Amstrad were inciting the public to infringe copyright . |
| 2 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 4 | When Coca Cola tried to tinker with the taste of Coke an outraged public forced them to return to the original . |
| 5 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 6 | For example , the post-war British Electricity Authority tried to insist on the protocol of official contact through the board secretary rather than allowing civil servants to make contact directly with specialist personnel ( Hannah 1982 : 44 ) . |
| 7 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 8 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 9 | Ignoring his mother , Putt tried to speak to the pot-man , but could only utter unintelligible noises . |
| 10 | Under police guard the members of the new union tried to break through the picket line formed by the first union , with fierce clashes taking place … |
| 11 | The Doctor tried to communicate with the slave in English , but received no response . |
| 12 | The Dutch launched their much larger East India Company with about £500,000 of capital two years later , and when the English company tried to trade with the Spice Islands the Dutch opposed it fiercely . |
| 13 | The hotel tried to rely upon the notice in guest 's room as excluding their liability for the loss . |
| 14 | Just after the fire started , a passer-by tried to break into the building , fearing children were trapped inside . |
| 15 | Political scientists have for some time tried to grapple with the question : what difference , if any , does party control of the government make to political outputs ? |