Example sentences of "[noun pl] tried [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 2 | On Scotland 's Grand Slam night in 1984 , for instance , some England supporters tried to steal a soup tureen from what was then the Claret Jug in Great King Street . |
| 3 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 4 | The man with the baskets tried to kick a couple of scrawny hens out of his path and they fluttered towards the edge of the road . |
| 5 | TERRORISTS tried to murder a soldier last night by giving him a tin of chocolates containing a bomb . |
| 6 | None of the horsemen tried to force a passage across the barricaded bridge . |
| 7 | Some Boards tried to preserve a sense of identity , basing districts on pre-nationalisation undertakings ( encouraging rivalry between them ) , while others aimed to blur old loyalties in merged districts , and encouraged increased cooperation between them . |
| 8 | The ambulance was delayed as police motorcyclists tried to clear a path through peak morning traffic as UVF murder victim Jim Bell was rushed across the City two weeks ago . |
| 9 | The Palestinians were kept bound and blindfolded in buses at the Lebanese border for some 20 hours while Israeli civil rights lawyers tried to win a court order to halt the deportations . |
| 10 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 11 | On the M-Four the westbound carriageway at junction thirteen had to be closed while police tried to recover a lorry . |
| 12 | As his unit of 25 men tried to reinforce a company under assault by a tank , a dozen soldiers came out of the tree line near the suburbs on the western edge of Sarajevo . |
| 13 | You remember , Prime Minister — two men tried to put a bomb on a plane last year . |
| 14 | As the partridge enthusiasts pottered about , three elderly men tried to clear a space in the centre of the cemetery . |
| 15 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |
| 16 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |