Example sentences of "tried [verb] out the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 2 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 3 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 4 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 5 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 6 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 7 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |
| 8 | A spokesman said ‘ The children tried to put out the fire but to no avail . |
| 9 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 10 | Even when Alexia , who remained a young woman even as her hair silvered , tried to point out the strengths of his pieces he mentally tuned out . |
| 11 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 12 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 13 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 14 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 15 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 16 | Between them they managed to organize £50,000 from ICFC on a three-month note and rapidly tried to straighten out the balance sheet . |