Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 2 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 3 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 4 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 5 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 6 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 7 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 8 | She made an inarticulate protest and tried to pull him closer , but deliberately he moved out of reach , leaving space between them . |
| 9 | ‘ As I 've said before , it 's not really realistic to expect us to win the league but the others have to try to catch us first . |
| 10 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 11 | Seeman tried to render it useful by identifying five meanings for it : |
| 12 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 13 | Neil had petrol poured over him by thugs who then tried to set him alight . |
| 14 | This presupposes that Victorian writers tried to persuade us that … * Some connectives such as " although " , " since " and " because " also conceal presuppositions : Because Dickens was a social reformer , he focused in his work on poverty . |
| 15 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 16 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 17 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 18 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 19 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 20 | I must say it was a great relief not to have to try to understand it all from books . |
| 21 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 22 | The eggs would get broken if the mother animal tried to keep them warm , as the mother bird does , because she is so heavy . |
| 23 | Because of the conditions , I tried to keep it simple and was extra careful not to make any mistakes . |
| 24 | If we tried to keep it alive we had an open flank : some guy trying to save his own ass by telling them : ‘ Jeez if you drink I did bad things just look at what Magill and Tadham were doing in London . ’ |
| 25 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 26 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd heard of Lina 's return , of course , although they tried to keep it quiet . |
| 28 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 29 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 30 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |