Example sentences of "he try [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he tried to stop the helicopter from going into a spin , it travelled further than he planned because he 'd mistaken the direction of the wind . |
| 2 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 3 | Graham Levy broke a chair on his wife 's back , hit her with a table leg and struck the boy as he tried to stop the attack . |
| 4 | As he tried to leave the field the ball suddenly dropped at his feet and he attempted a long-range crossfield pass aimed at Gordon Strachan . |
| 5 | He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country . |
| 6 | ‘ Our client touched the ground on the island while he tried to control the dog and received a very strong electric shock . |
| 7 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 8 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 9 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |
| 10 | In Absolute Beginners he tried to explore the energy of London in the Fifties . |
| 11 | As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England . |
| 12 | He tried to resist the voice — to shut it out from his mind — to will himself towards his destination again — towards the light . |
| 13 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 14 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 15 | ‘ When my mate asked him to let us finish our song he tried to shut the piano lid on his fingers — that could cause a musician some serious grief . ’ |
| 16 | He bled … he tried to reach the door … there was blood all over the floor … pints of it . |
| 17 | He tried to push the cross bar up . |
| 18 | He tried to remember the details of the old scandal something to do with a scene on the stage that had stopped the performance , and after that she 'd never appeared again , until now . |
| 19 | He tried to steer the conversation back to theory . |
| 20 | And managing to sniff out of her second in command a crisis back at the office , even though he tried to steer the conversation well away from work . |
| 21 | He struggled to his knees , but the menace of the leering faces surrounding rounding him drained the strength from his limbs , so that when he tried to draw the bow across the strings the result was a tuneless scratch . |
| 22 | To further aggrandize himself , he tried to supplant the captain as our host . |
| 23 | They were said to have manhandled Hakkari province governor Erdogan Ulker as he tried to inspect the Yesilova camp on May 1 , following Fisk 's report . |
| 24 | ‘ I hear your husband was blackballed when he tried to join the Country Club . |
| 25 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 26 | From the hospital foyer he tried to telephone the Substitute who had been in court all afternoon and wanted to hear how things had gone . |
| 27 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 28 | He tried to ignore the pain . |
| 29 | ’ He tried to force the joviality that was usually so easy . |
| 30 | He tried to force the number one player in the world to make his shot . |