Example sentences of "tried [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 2 | He paused at a street corner and tried to come to a decision . |
| 3 | Her bright tone brought a reluctant smile to Faye 's lips , then she dabbed her swollen eyes with the tissues Belinda gave her and tried to struggle to a sitting position . |
| 4 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 5 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 6 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 7 | Instead , he had to settle for a chemist 's shop , and though he still tried to behave like a doctor , it did n't work . |
| 8 | She tried to edge in a protest but Ember talked fast to forestall her . |
| 9 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 10 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 11 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 12 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 13 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 14 | The second interview ended abruptly when the convalescent tried to embark on a discussion of the merits of his water-colours . |
| 15 | It was this constant strain of pessimism , both about his own writing and about the civilization of which he was a part , that Wyndham Lewis tried to evoke in a portrait of Eliot which he was painting in the spring of 1949 " The body slightly tilted , " he explained , " … in resigned anticipation of the worst . |
| 16 | ( No doubt , a future feminist biographer will revise our verdict on Elena Ceauşescu 's contributions to macro-molecular chemistry and maintain that far from plagiarizing Murgulescu and his colleagues , they tried to deny to a peasant woman the credit for her discoveries . ) |
| 17 | We tried to keep about a mile in front of the runners , grabbing photographs whenever we could , but it was n't easy . |
| 18 | All went well until she tried to climb into a taxi after the reception at the exclusive Dorchester Club following a quiet ceremony for family and a few friends at Chelsea Register Office . |
| 19 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 20 | Where the tongue tried to stir like a heart |
| 21 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 22 | Last night the cricketer said the incident happened as he tried to get into a pub . |
| 23 | On the first evening the young men got drunk and tried to get into a nightclub but were refused admission . |
| 24 | In vain , Agnes tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house . |
| 25 | He tried to think of a wife who had a larger car than her husband 's and he could n't think of one . |
| 26 | He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture . |
| 27 | THIEVES tried to break into a pensioners ' community centre just hours before a tombola to replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 28 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 29 | Once Marxism was a value system then capitalism and free enterprise tried to coalesce as a value system — largely unsuccessfully . |
| 30 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |