Example sentences of "[verb] have tried [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let me cut through all that science , that er , Councillor Parker has has tried to make this issue . |
| 2 | Programmes are now being directed towards preventing relapse in a smoking population that is increasingly composed of people who have tried several times to stop : among smokers surveyed in 1990 , 42% reported having tried to stop in the previous year ( unpublished data , Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer ) . |
| 3 | The Countless Stones at Aylesford in Kent are the remains of a chambered tomb : a baker is said to have tried to solve the problem by placing a loaf on each stone , but the Devil kept knocking them off . |
| 4 | He is alleged to have tried to rape the first , aged 18 , and to have raped the second , aged 22 . |
| 5 | The positivists seem to have tried to avoid this problem by , once again , adopting the ‘ scientific ’ stance . |
| 6 | Police were interviewing a man yesterday alleged to have tried to steal a golden pheasant from a cage at a house at Chapelgarth , Great Broughton . |
| 7 | Furthermore , a quarter of the combined cases of the Drugs Council and the Detoxification Unit were known to have tried injecting heroin . |
| 8 | An off-duty policeman is believed to have tried to revive James Fraser after he collapsed near Carlton Bank but the 65-year-old , of Burgate , Pickering , was certified dead on arrival at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 9 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 10 | But he does not seem to have tried to give a description of the Roman system of m unicipia and coloniae , Latin allies and other confederates . |
| 11 | ‘ I can think of one firm that I think had tried to pull the wool over our eyes for many years . |
| 12 | Erm Joyce I think had had tried to drop out the things that were only relevant to individual officers out . |