Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | According to reports at the time , McAvennie and a couple of unnamed cohorts left the club 's annual Christmas dinner and tried to gatecrash a private party being held in the hotel by West Ham 's commercial manager Brian Blower . |
| 5 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 6 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 7 | The shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a Belfast nightspot . |
| 8 | The latest shootings took place less than 24 hours after the IRA tried to kill a former UDR man in a central Belfast nightspot . |
| 9 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |
| 10 | This bad timing is typical for Deirdre , who once tried to kill a faithless lover with an ashtray , but succeeded only in setting the hotel room on fire . |
| 11 | THE UVF have admitted they tried to kill a Protestant man in east Belfast last night . |
| 12 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 13 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | They even tried to arrange an earlier flight home — but were told they would have to stay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The geographer Vaughan Cornish tried to establish a scientific basis for the study of scenic heritage . |
| 19 | Despite the provision for votes ( weighted broadly according to members ' population size ) the Council usually tried to establish a unanimous position among the member states . |
| 20 | The Committee , made up of officials from each country , discussed policy proposals by the Commission and , again , tried to establish a unanimous view . |
| 21 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 22 | After he became a Communist , Neruda consciously tried to write a different kind of poetry incorporating a political message and which would be comprehensible to working people , the most famous and successful example of which is his Canto General . |
| 23 | Finally , in the latter months of 1945 , as Britain tried to obtain a massive loan from the USA to remain financially solvent , a conference was arranged for January 1946 in Bermuda . |
| 24 | The Hellenistic kings tried to provide a visual legitimisation of their position by choosing portraits which were closely derived from those of Alexander the Great . |
| 25 | Ferguson tried to provide a balanced conclusion by viewing the situation from the Russian perspective : |
| 26 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | The restaurant changed , as did the maître d' , but he still watched like a hawk and swooped with a pained query if you did n't savour every mouthful or tried to hide a tough end of meat under your lettuce . |
| 29 | She wagged her finger at Frank , even for the first week behaving flirtatiously with him — while he tried to hide an obvious mixture of embarrassment and pleasure . |
| 30 | 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 . |