Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] tried [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 2 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 3 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 4 | Applying power , I forgot about the ‘ tail low ’ advice and she tried to dart off the left side of the runway before some firm right boot put us back in line for another go . |
| 5 | 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 . |