Example sentences of "and tried [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He poured it through and tried to light several matches before one took hold and was tossed through the gap , ’ said Mr Joyce . |
| 2 | The eventual outcome was not favourable to the students who had taken politics into their own hands and tried to realise democratic practices at the local level . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , in principle at least , government drew back from collusion with pressure groups and tried to leave economic market conditions to decide policy . |
| 4 | The morning after the general 's briefing , Iraq brought its latent air capability out of hiding , and tried to hit allied warships in the Gulf . |
| 5 | I sat down and tried to regain some sense of equilibrium . |
| 6 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 7 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 8 | Then Stephenson went forward and tried to force thin metal gauges between . |
| 9 | She licked her lips nervously and tried to simulate deep interest in the scenery outside , which was difficult , since there was very little to see in the rapidly failing light . |
| 10 | And they 've taken the free kick quickly and tried to take full advantage of the situation and the referee has said you ca n't do that . |
| 11 | Putting her mug down , she rubbed her fingers along her arm and tried to chafe some heat into her cool flesh . |
| 12 | Although the examiner appointed by the court may submit a report which accompanies the deposition , this is merely intended to give him the opportunity of recording facts , including incidents during the examination ( for example , that the witnesses fainted or rose up and tried to assault cross-examining counsel ) ; the examiner can not indicate his opinion as to the credibility of the witness or his own impressions of the witness 's demeanour . |
| 13 | Sometimes I caught the Feldwebel looking wistfully out of the window at a dilapidated horse and cart or an old man on a bicycle but he controlled himself and tried to make polite conversation . |
| 14 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 15 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 16 | He held her quite tightly , and tried to prevent other people from banging into her . |
| 17 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 18 | In spite of their limited presence in the city the Poles worked to deny its sovereignty , pressed their historical claim to the place by promoting its Polishness and tried to gain increased control of Senate procedures . |
| 19 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 20 | I crawled into my trench , adjusted the camouflage square over my face and head , curled myself into a ball and tried to get some sleep . |
| 21 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 22 | She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats . |
| 23 | As I lay on my back and tried to visualize those brigades of white cells marching to my rescue , all I saw were those other cadavers so plentiful in our ancient cathedrals . |
| 24 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 25 | Foreign direct investment by manufacturers has also grown rapidly over the past decade as firms chased lower costs , moved closer to their markets and tried to dodge protectionist barriers . |