Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 2 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 3 | I 'm very sorry to have to tell you this — but Mrs Kemp tried to kill herself this afternoon . ’ |
| 4 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 5 | As ECOMOG tried to continue its peacekeeping role , it was increasingly drawn into a de facto alliance with Johnson 's forces . |
| 6 | I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip , but found I did n't seem to have any muscles in it . |
| 7 | The British embassy in Washington , however , predicted serious damage to Anglo-American relations if the British were too critical or tried to go their own way . |
| 8 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 9 | Alison Edwards , 20 , of West Glamorgan , fell into a coma after her heart stopped as doctors tried to repair her slashed face . |
| 10 | She tried to strangle her three-month-old daughter and then her lover arrived to finish the evil deed . |
| 11 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 12 | The fall of Kontrax is bad news for Mirror Group pensioners — Maxwell Communications Corp Plc owned 30% of the firm , for Compaq Computer Corp — which will now have to try to retrieve its first consignment of personal computers destined for the company from Hungarian customs authorities , and Disco himself , who opted to build his flat on top of the multi-million dollar Kontrax office building . |
| 13 | SHORTLY after 9am yesterday , the owner of an ageing Lada saloon desperately tried to restart his stalled car as he waited at the lights which now control the exit from the M8 at the Newbridge roundabout on the western approaches to Edinburgh . |
| 14 | I liked it when Kaptan described his moment of deliverance , the point at which I tried to shoot my old comrade in arms in the back , then the desperate fumble to see who 'd get their shots off first . |
| 15 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 16 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 17 | But true to form , the new season saw him in familiar mood , darting into dangerous positions and scoring with ease as relegated West Ham tried to regain their aristocratic status . |
| 18 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 19 | The letter was sent by Francis Tonge , who lives in South Yunderup , Western Australia , and had used a Darlington telephone directory to try to trace his old pal . |
| 20 | She massaged her collarbone gingerly and tried to calm her ragged breathing . |
| 21 | When the little aircraft bumped to a halt on a grassy field outside Paris , Miss Stark , who had chosen to travel in the outside cockpit for the sheer hell of it , put her hands to her head and tried to calm her dishevelled hair . |
| 22 | And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood . |
| 23 | In the early 1980s , Dan tried to trace his old crew and received this letter from the Veterans Administration , informing him ‘ We regret to advise you that our records reflect the deaths of three of your crew : — Edward C Chambers , July 31 , 1973 ; William F Mackowiak , November 10 , 1975 ; Charles J Wilson , January 2 , 1978 . |
| 24 | To try to rejuvenate his fading presidency Reagan wanted to be seen on prime-time network television across America greeting each hostage in turn as they stepped safely back on to American soil . |
| 25 | While he went to get her a glass of freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice she tried to resent his patronising amusement , but failed to summon up enough ill-feeling to do so . |
| 26 | From an early point in his career , Kirk Douglas tried to assert his own authority on the films he made . |
| 27 | At that period , despite a postbag of film offers , Dustin tried to put his pregnant wife and his stepdaughter before everything else . |
| 28 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 29 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 30 | Sharpe tried to draw his own sword , but the moment he took his right hand off the reins he almost fell and the mare immediately tried to check . |