Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 2 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 3 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 4 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 5 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 6 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 7 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 8 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 9 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 10 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 11 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 12 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 13 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 14 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 15 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 16 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |