Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 2 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 3 | Several foreign journalists who tried to film the incident were themselves manhandled by security forces and briefly detained . |
| 4 | ‘ She came back again when the baby was born and for a few months she tried , I 'll give her that . |
| 5 | Under the Dutch there were formal courts which tried serious criminal cases , but both European officials and headmen were empowered to judge summarily petty cases and to punish offenders with a fine or whipping . |
| 6 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 7 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 8 | The Rossmaynes had lived there since the sixteenth century , the house stubbornly resisting the elements which tried to erode its walls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whilst dressing the models she tried to chat to them and ask how they had come by their jobs but they were not very forthcoming . |
| 11 | This is because polytechnic directors who tried to list their institutions withdrew under threat of legal action . |
| 12 | The Emperor had no particular difficulty putting a stop to this , though the Company was able to re-establish its position by blockading shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Emperor forgave the Company in much the same way as he would have forgiven any of his nobles who tried to rebel but who was so powerful that it was neither convenient nor practicable to destroy him . |
| 13 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 14 | You may be able to get separate insurance but the companies we tried did n't want to know — and none of the companies normally used by vets to insure pets were prepared to cover fish . |
| 15 | In giving most people middle-class aspirations it tried to rid the nation of its old-fashioned class structure . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 17 | With trembling fingers she tried the lock . |
| 18 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 19 | It was the sons who tried to train my ear . |
| 20 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 21 | When I was in Germany at the end of the war , I met hundreds of Germans who tried to explain this to me . |
| 22 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 23 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 24 | The meeting whose dangers she tried to reason away by recourse to Freud . ’ |
| 25 | After a couple of minutes she tried again . |
| 26 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 27 | ‘ So I thought bugger this for a lark and got rid of them , and the next couple of days I tried to ring you , but … ’ |
| 28 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 29 | For years I tried to paint around grasses and tried masking fluid ; however neither approach gave me a satisfactory result . |
| 30 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |