Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 2 | Under these circumstances , a " Device full " error would be reported when you tried to write data to the file for the first time . |
| 3 | Yousefi was caught as he tried to cash a cheque in London . |
| 4 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 5 | Dorothy opened the oven to see how the dinner was coming along , and her voice was muffled as she tried to avoid the steam from the casserole she was peeking at . |
| 6 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |
| 7 | A POLICEMAN responding to a 999 call was attacked as he tried to make an arrest . |
| 8 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 9 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 10 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 11 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 12 | A STOWAWAY who jumped ship was caught when he tried to call relatives in North Africa from a motorway phone . |
| 13 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 14 | It is said that he tried to dissuade his sons from studying mathematics so that the name of Gauss would remain synonymous with excellence . |
| 15 | As he watched her eating he knew what would have to be done if she tried to expose him publicly . |
| 16 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 17 | It is thought that he tried to lie down to sleep — he normally slept sitting up , propped against pillows — and suffocated . |
| 18 | just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument . |
| 19 | The animals were chased across a field and drowned when they tried to escape by jumping into a brook . |
| 20 | A DOG owner drowned as he tried to rescue his labrador from a rain-swollen river . |
| 21 | They believe me , Connelly thought as he tried to suck in breath , tasting the rancid atmosphere as thickly as if it were smoke . |
| 22 | Irreverent humorists chuckled in anticipation of the Reverend Kemp 's unecclesiastical language when the clarion call was sounded and he tried to dig his way out . |
| 23 | The young man 's eyes narrowed as he tried to identify the speaker . |
| 24 | Her hands had trembled as they tried to re-fill Lady West 's cup and the latter had been quack to press home her advantage . |
| 25 | Frank was arrested as he tried to cross into Czechoslovakia . ’ |
| 26 | The leader of the Convergence for Social Democracy ( CDS ) , Placido Miko , was arrested as he tried to pass a copy of the opposition newspaper La Verdad to a traveller to Spain . |
| 27 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 28 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 29 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 30 | Pavis , upset at being interrupted as he tried to thank the contractors who have built three new stands , said : ‘ I regret the choice of words but it was an instinctive reaction which was n't meant to be heard . ’ |