Example sentences of "and tried [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used numerous tactics trying to engage their support and tried to enlist the help of the Prime Minister , the Royal Family , the Scottish Office and as Helen Martin said ‘ If we had known the address of the man up above ( God ) we would have wrote to him as well . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As he opened the door he saw the youths and tried to push the door to . |
| 3 | One section of the women backed the men ; another formed a separate union for a short while and tried to resist the ban called for in the men 's memorial . |
| 4 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
| 5 | Charity tried to prise her eyes open , but , failing that , she pulled her pillow over her head , and tried to ignore the noise outside . |
| 6 | From Glamis , her home for the moment , Groa moved about her concerns with the farm people and tried to ignore the rumble of wagons taking felled timber to the palisade , or men with pickaxes and shovels on their way to Dunsinane , where the old ring-fort below the watch-station had received new stone-and-earth walls , and shelters for folk as well as animals . |
| 7 | Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence . |
| 8 | Charles had persuaded Miles to stop and tried ringing the bell on the gate . |
| 9 | Annoyed , he had reached across Ben and tried to touch the steering wheel and Ben had slapped his hand lightly . |
| 10 | There the changing of the locks is easily to be explained by the needs of security ; and the fact that they paid the rates and settled the electricity bill and tried to improve the premises really takes the matter no further . |
| 11 | Police sealed off central East Berlin and tried to disperse the crowds . |
| 12 | He smelt their fetid breath and tried to control the shuddering of his body , fighting against the nauseous panic which curdled his stomach and made his legs so weak he longed to sit down . |
| 13 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 14 | He turned and tried to open the door again , but it was impossible to do so . |
| 15 | The plaintiff , a police officer , saw that highway users were in danger and tried to stop the horse . |
| 16 | Clarke , a substitute for Sanchez , robbed Stein and tried to steer the ball home but Chamberlain , playing only his second game since November , saved well . |
| 17 | Charles consumed most of the Valpolicella and tried to steer the conversation away from anything to do with Marius Steen . |
| 18 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 19 | First the social worker went in at the old man 's request , and tried to persuade the daughter and son-in-law to leave . |
| 20 | The Central Authority were extremely worried about the transfer of lump sums to municipal coffers , or rebates paid to consumers , and tried to persuade the Government to act to prevent such abuses pending nationalisation . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he regarded himself as " deaf and dumb " , declared his support for the retention of this phrase and tried to counter the arguments for its abandonment . |
| 22 | And Grainne , who had her own might-have-beens , understood , and tried to make her stories of the Bright Palace interesting and amusing , and tried to minimise the rigours and the heartaches of exile on Innisfree . |
| 23 | Lissa gazed up at him , at his vexed expression , and tried to quell the smile that pulled at her lips . |
| 24 | While Milton explained the background and tried to wrest the case back to his jurisdiction , Pooley , who had gone with him to ffeatherstonehaugh 's , was white-faced with fear at Ramsbum 's gleeful account of the state of the two victims . |
| 25 | Secondly , many of the writers who established sociology took the notion of evolution from Darwinian biology , and tried to see the part played by man 's societies and cultures in the light of this . |
| 26 | She wore brown sandals , and tried to arrange the cross-gartering over two scabs where she 'd cut herself shaving . |
| 27 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 28 | Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off . |
| 29 | Six months into construction , officials from Sumatra Utara Provinces Electricity Board appeared and tried to halt the work . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , wool , ’ I answered and tried to explain the idea of tartan , the ‘ tribes ’ of Scotland with their foreign names . |