Example sentences of "i have [adv] tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had even tried to record all his favourite television programmes . |
| 2 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 3 | I was trying to look as if I had n't tried to look pretty . |
| 4 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact , I 've already tried to raise a bank loan in order to do that very thing — but I had no luck . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 7 | I 've just tried to escape . |
| 8 | This was before I was playing with Chet and everything , so that 's all it really needed , and I 've just tried to keep up since then . |
| 9 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 10 | I 've smiled at him , I 've dutifully tried to look as if I like everything about him . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 12 | But er the school , I think it was Rudling I , I 've often tried to find it but I I 'm not sure which one i , you know , for |
| 13 | I 've always tried to dispel that idea . " |
| 14 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 15 | At the Greenwich Meridian : Every single spot on earth is the centre , that 's what I 've always tried to say in my music . |
| 16 | So I 've always tried to eliminate it and Ibanez has worked with me to try to get as little flutter in that vibrato bar as possible by using certain springs or arrangements of springs . |
| 17 | I 've always tried to keep too clear of foreign riders as you well know , but erm there are n't the riders around that you can slip in erm of the sort that we would want to put in . |
| 18 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 19 | That 's what I 've always tried to convey in my writing . ’ |
| 20 | I 've never tried to go after five o'clock . |
| 21 | I hate cooking , and I 've never tried to bake in my life . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never tried to crush your creative instincts . |
| 23 | But I have also tried to spread the knowledge of the past criminal misuse of human genetics in Nazi Germany . |
| 24 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 25 | ‘ I have also tried to establish some sort of memorial within the nature park where Julie and Elizabeth were murdered but South African officials at the embassy do n't seem particularly interested . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have just tried to learn the positive things from people before me who have been dropped . ’ |
| 27 | I have already tried to explain his views by reference to his ideas about democracy and law . |
| 28 | I have already tried to describe her beauty . |
| 29 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 30 | Taylor explained : ‘ I have n't tried to contact the Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson today for obvious reasons , but with the international a fortnight away I think Batty will be available . ’ |