Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 3 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 4 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 5 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 6 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 7 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 8 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 9 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 10 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 11 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 12 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 13 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 14 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 15 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 16 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 17 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 18 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 19 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 20 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 21 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 22 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 23 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 25 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 26 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 27 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 28 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 29 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 30 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |