Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] tried [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 2 | Despite that , Wales gathered momentum , once they tried to run around the French rather than confront them . |
| 3 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 4 | Before he fired the man , Judge Shindler heard from the rest of the jury that the wayward juror had DRUNK and SWORN during the trial and DISTRACTED them while they tried to listen to the evidence . |
| 5 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 6 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 7 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 10 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 11 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 14 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 15 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 16 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 17 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 18 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 19 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 22 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 23 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 24 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 25 | ‘ Day seven today , Piper , 12th June , ’ Taff remarked as he tried to move around the cramped area of his trench collecting his bits of equipment . |
| 26 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 27 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 28 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 29 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 30 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |