Example sentences of "that she [vb past] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward , fighting the thought , imagined decay ; Helen remembered the posy of flowers from the garden that she had tried to fix to the coffin lid with sellotape . |
| 2 | Was it possible that she had tried to bribe the undertaker with her body ? |
| 3 | I could see from the four small puncture marks on Fenella 's wrist that she had tried to stroke him during lunch . |
| 4 | But when this was over , Eleanor would deeply regret that she had tried to interfere with his personal life . |
| 5 | Not that she intended trying to leave — she had nowhere to go . |
| 6 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |