Example sentences of "tried [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 2 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 3 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 4 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 5 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 6 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 7 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 8 | So Patsy tried dipping it in cold tea first . |
| 9 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |