Example sentences of "had tried [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | And both , but most often my grandmother , would speak of her brother , Nethan ( Nathaniel ) ; of his good looks , of his skill as a musician , of how he had tried several times and failed to persuade my grandfather to enlist . |
| 2 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 3 | He had tried several times at a local shooting range but he could n't bring himself to pull the trigger . |
| 4 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 5 | She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing . |