Example sentences of "she try [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 2 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 3 | Rachel 's eyes lit up as she tried to take it from him . |
| 4 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 5 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 6 | Mr Roberts said when the men were arrested , Angela Wolfe , 18 , of Thompson Street West , Darlington , Drummond 's girlfriend took £14,267 to Newcastle where she tried to put it in a safety deposit box . |
| 7 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 8 | Horrified , she tried to wrench herself from sleep — then the water struck , roaring round her ears . |
| 9 | She tried to give it to me |
| 10 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 11 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 12 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 13 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 14 | She tried to distance herself from it all , as Papa had once said that the Indians did , but it was useless ; he hurt her too much , and , what was worse , took pleasure in her pain … |
| 15 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 16 | She tried to jolly herself into enthusiasm . |
| 17 | She tried exchanging it for Fleury 's but that was just as hard . |
| 18 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 19 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 20 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 21 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 22 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 23 | And when she tried to interest him in niente acqua , he laughed as he limped round his shelves serving several customers at once and , shrugging his high shoulders , said , ‘ Non c'è pioggia , non c'è acqua . ’ |
| 24 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 25 | Now , he stood up and began to pace purposefully round the room , making Ari 's head whirl as she tried to follow him with her eyes . |
| 26 | She tried to clear them from her mind , but was broody over breakfast . |
| 27 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 28 | She tried teasing him with her perfectly-rounded breasts , swinging the soft globes against his face . |
| 29 | She tried to tell him with her eyes as he advanced , hands balled into fists , but he did n't understand . |
| 30 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |