Example sentences of "he try [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 2 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 3 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 4 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 5 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 6 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 7 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 8 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 9 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 10 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He tried to apply psychoanalytic findings to political issues , and in particular to trying to change sexual understanding and morality among young people , both students and young workers . |
| 13 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 14 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 15 | He tried to make small talk but got no replies . |
| 16 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 17 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 18 | A policeman was one of the first victims , injured when he was hit by a car as he tried to direct rush-hour traffic around an accident on icy roads . |
| 19 | Again and again he tried to recreate that moment . |
| 20 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 21 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 22 | Having found that Vendale 's identity is not what it is believed to be , he tries to use this discovery , but is thwarted by Bintrey . |
| 23 | Like her , he tries to set local government within ‘ the context of the encompassing political economy ’ , but he also argues that Cockburn 's approach , by presenting local government as an instrument of capital makes it ‘ unproblematic and so renders any detailed study of it almost superfluous ’ ( Dearlove , 1979 , p. 217 ) . |
| 24 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 25 | This message from his old comrade who faced the whizzbangs in the frontline trench obviously moves the birthday boy , though you sense he tries to hide any emotion . |
| 26 | He tries to obtain fresh herbs where possible , and grows a few in his garden as a standby , although dried herbs do work if the fresh variety is not available . |
| 27 | M. He tries to construct some sort of reality in his life , some sort of decency . |
| 28 | Why is he trying to stop this Bill instead of amending it in Committee ? |