Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 2 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 3 | A scientist who tried to cope with the orbit of Uranus by proposing that the force between Uranus and the sun obeyed something other than the inverse square law would be opting out of the Newtonian research programme . |
| 4 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 5 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 6 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 7 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 8 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 9 | Tried to see past the antipathy he always aroused in her . |
| 10 | He tittered nervously as he tried to see through the glare of the flames . |
| 11 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 12 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 13 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 14 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 16 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 17 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 18 | One example may illustrate the nature of these awards : Michael Burn , who crossed the docks alone , had barely got ashore , being half-drowned by the weight of his equipment as he tried to swim to the dockside , and being rescued by Lance-Corporal Young . |
| 19 | The school found some support for their interpretation of Mrs Peel 's behaviour from a community nurse who tried to work with the family : ‘ She thinks there 's evidence of sexual abuse ; soiling , language and sexually overt behaviour . ’ |
| 20 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 21 | When Coca Cola tried to tinker with the taste of Coke an outraged public forced them to return to the original . |
| 22 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 23 | The Doctor tried to communicate with the slave in English , but received no response . |
| 24 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 25 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 26 | Political scientists have for some time tried to grapple with the question : what difference , if any , does party control of the government make to political outputs ? |
| 27 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 28 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 29 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 30 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |