Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it made clear that it tried to keep the duration of such layoffs to a minimum , and suggested also that it was its industrial , not its secretarial/office staff , who were most likely to be affected by them ( interview with Manpower ) . |
| 2 | Rachel was horribly sensible if you tried to fight with her . |
| 3 | Our hospitals would be empty if we tried to discriminate between self-induced or even partially self-induced illnesses , and naturally developed diseases . |
| 4 | Lothar 's supporters implicitly recognised this when they tried to postpone the battle 's political impact by spreading rumours that Charles had been killed and Louis wounded . |
| 5 | Diana recognised this when she tried to get rid of Charles 's old advisers whom she felt were working against her . |
| 6 | Every racking pain tore at him ; he had n't wept since he was a child , but his cheeks were wet as he tried to comfort her . |
| 7 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 8 | The knocking annoyed me so much that I tried to open the window . |
| 9 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 10 | Grimma 's forehead wrinkled as she tried to read the smaller words on the back . |
| 11 | Later , her husband became impotent when he tried to make love to her — by the power of prayer , Margery insists , but the reader may have reservations . |
| 12 | She would be sick if she tried to eat . |
| 13 | Would n't you be happier if you tried to forget her scolding ? |
| 14 | Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity , together with the passionate emotions if excited ? |
| 15 | It was nasty , brutish and to be frank frightening as they tried to make sure they won the vote over Maastricht . |
| 16 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 17 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 18 | He was unconscious and I tried to wake him up but I could n't . |
| 19 | Her breathing was deep and she tried to control it , tried to stop herself hyperventilating . |
| 20 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 21 | Two out of three admitted they felt irritable , angry and unhappy when they tried to cut down . |
| 22 | His propaganda was often at its most effective in personal abuse , and at its weakest when he tried to expound a political theory . |
| 23 | The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed . |
| 24 | He felt as if the floor were shifting under his feet , giddy as he tried to take in what was happening . |
| 25 | Her voice faded and she felt bitterly ashamed as she tried to control her rising panic . |
| 26 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 27 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 28 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 29 | Flushed and wild-eyed like all the others , they resisted at first when he tried to drag them away . |
| 30 | But her tone was lightly teasing as she tried to cheer him up . |