Example sentences of "tried [verb] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 2 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 3 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 6 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 7 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 8 | At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ . |