Example sentences of "tried [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 2 | The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding . |
| 3 | A recent advert for Pepe jeans tried using the closing line ‘ Buy Pepe jeans — because one day you 'll die ’ . |
| 4 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 5 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 6 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 7 | He was surprised to find that the medical officer was not resident at the hospital , ‘ … my wife and I , and a friend ( the wife of a highly-placed London County Council Official ) tried to interview the medical officer at his home ’ . |
| 8 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 9 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 10 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
| 11 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . |
| 13 | For example , some Health Authorities tried to obstruct the competitive tendering process for ancillary services . |
| 14 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 15 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |
| 16 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 17 | Gutenberg tried to mimic the gothic calligraphy of his own time when he invented modern printing , because anything else would have been hard to read . |
| 18 | Chattering excitedly the children tried to open the other part of the building but it was still padlocked securely , they could see a little through various cracks but there seemed to be nothing of interest in that part . |
| 19 | Labour reacted by attacking the government for these conditions ; stung by accusations of heartlessness , the Conservatives tried to mobilise the active citizen for the amelioration of the problems . |
| 20 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 21 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 22 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 23 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 24 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |
| 25 | A food co-op which tried to replace the burned-out shops has been closed after several break-ins , and even the drop-in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . |
| 26 | It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit . |
| 27 | In the end the PLO tried to replace the Patriotic Front with a right-wing alternative of its own . |
| 28 | To comment on the missing issues from the general election , as do the various articles in your issue of 17 April , without recognition that at least some of the parties tried to widen the political agenda , is to provide a very incomplete analysis for finding the way forward . |
| 29 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 30 | As Phil loaded his syringe and Ricky tried to calm the terrified pony , whose eyes were quite glazed now , they heard frantic barking outside . |