Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 5 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 6 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 7 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 8 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 9 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 10 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
| 12 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 13 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 14 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 15 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 16 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 17 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 18 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 21 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |