Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |
| 2 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 3 | They were innovators in that they were the first ones who did n't try to represent the melody as written . |
| 4 | The hapless governor , who had vainly tried to uphold the sultan 's authority , was beheaded by the janissaries in 1801 . |
| 5 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 6 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 7 | Henri 's unexpected death changed the political circumstances , but left the need to act unaltered ; for the accession of Francis and Mary opened the way for the dominance of Mary 's uncles of Guise : the duke , and the cardinal who had already tried to teach Mary a statecraft which left no room for indifference to Scotland . |
| 8 | These ideas were informed by a paper which had already been produced by an active member of the local Mencap group , who had previously tried to generate the debate within the Community Health Service through the Mencap committee . |
| 9 | His earlier association with Vane ( who had actually tried to resist being replaced by his own deputy ) did not prevent Hutchinson from remaining in office under the Cromwellian Protectorate . |
| 10 | For a boss , in fact , he was a very human man , who had hardly tried to hide the tears behind his eyes as he had stepped into the Mercedes earlier . |