Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 4 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 5 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 6 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 8 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 9 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 10 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 11 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 12 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 13 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 14 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 15 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 16 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 17 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 18 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 19 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 20 | Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips . |
| 21 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 22 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 23 | Her teaching mostly consisted of falling asleep while we children fought each other , but Mr Wopsle 's young cousin , Biddy , tried to keep us under control and teach us to read , write and count . |
| 24 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 25 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 26 | Tried to get us to stey up fur a slow wan . |
| 27 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 28 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 29 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 30 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |