Example sentences of "they tried [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 2 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 3 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 4 | They tried to drive the adult peasants into paying their taxes , instead of coaxing them . |
| 5 | As the number of these specialists increased , they tried to use the idea of evolution as a means of giving their disciplines a vague unity , thus creating the first science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 6 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 7 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 8 | The dragon-lady 's in a sober tizzy , eh ? , because they tried to give a bucket of beer to the horse . |
| 9 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane last year , did n't they , sir ? |
| 10 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane ! |
| 11 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane . |
| 12 | They tried to drink the water , which made them sick , and had a go at their own urine until that too simply ran out . |
| 13 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 14 | They tried to reach the River Po , which they hoped to cross so that they could eventually get back to Germany . |
| 15 | I think they tried to persuade the landlords to bring another . |
| 16 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 18 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 19 | UEFA 's appeals committee will hear Tbilisi deny that they tried to bribe the referee and linesmen before the first leg in Georgia three weeks ago . |
| 20 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 21 | What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so . |
| 22 | They tried to enlarge the territory of their state , which was perhaps essential if they were to survive . |
| 23 | They tried to force an amendment , to extend the Sunday closing time from two to three p.m . |
| 24 | She was a friend and adviser for the family as they tried to negotiate a path through an education system which was not always easy to understand . |
| 25 | They reckoned to have walked 18 miles each to and from the board as they tried to beat the world record of 510,625 scored in 25s and bullseyes in 24 hours . |
| 26 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan — villain Jimmy Corkhill in the TV soap — grabbed three art gallery vandals after they tried to wreck a £500 painting . |
| 27 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 28 | Lothar 's supporters implicitly recognised this when they tried to postpone the battle 's political impact by spreading rumours that Charles had been killed and Louis wounded . |
| 29 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 30 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |