Example sentences of "tried [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 2 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 3 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 4 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 5 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 6 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 7 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 8 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 9 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 10 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 11 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 12 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 13 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 14 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |