Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] what the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 2 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 5 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 6 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 7 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 8 | 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 . |