Example sentences of "we tried [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 2 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 3 | We tried to keep about a mile in front of the runners , grabbing photographs whenever we could , but it was n't easy . |
| 4 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 5 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 6 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |