Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 2 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 3 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 4 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 5 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 6 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 7 | She never tried to escape from their constant supervision , avoided both Lachlan and Farquhar like lepers , took sly slaps and pinches in silence , made much of loving her son , and could , they discovered , tell a story to make a corpse laugh . |
| 8 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 9 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 10 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 11 | After his inspection , he tried to think of something positive to say . |
| 12 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 13 | I tried to think of something dignified and contemptuous to say to the officer but could find nothing . |
| 14 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
| 15 | As she began on her soup she tried to think of what possible sin she could have committed to change his attitude towards her . |
| 16 | He tried to think of what little he had heard of snares . |
| 17 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 18 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 19 | She looked at Fergus 's dim reflection , distorted in the glass , then tried to re-focus on her own image . |
| 20 | Robbed of speech , she tried to protest with her huge , bewildered eyes . |
| 21 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |