Example sentences of "she tried [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claire was delighted at the improvement She tried drinking a glass of milk , to see what would happen , and 24 hours later Jamie , following a feed , suffered , a severe attack of colic . |
| 2 | In the bedroom , afterwards , she tried to couch a question which would probe some of the doubts she had , without alerting Jessica to the fact she had them . |
| 3 | A nurse has been knocked down and seriously injured by her own car after she tried to stop a man stealing it . |
| 4 | DEVOTED housekeeper Annie Bowman was crushed to death as she tried to stop a thief stealing her boss 's JCB digger . |
| 5 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 6 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 7 | She tried to suppress a laugh but a brief honk came through . |
| 8 | A pensioner is in hospital with serious burns after her house exploded as she tried to light a gas fire . |
| 9 | Mum could see she was getting nowhere so she tried shedding a tear or two . |
| 10 | Mrs Bristow , of central London , who worked as a court reporter , fell from the third-floor as she tried to open a sash window in the press room at the court . |
| 11 | The UK 's position in the mid 1960s provides a good example since she tried to avoid a change in her par value for as long as possible but in the end was forced to devalue because of increasing capital outflows . |
| 12 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
| 13 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 14 | But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it , |
| 15 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 16 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 17 | She tried to get a reading first off the youth then off his whimpering colleague . |
| 18 | She tried to frame a question . |