Example sentences of "and she try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's strange well erm I mean with , Bon 's just qualified now and she trying to get a job down in Portsmouth but erm you know they 're not they do n't |
| 2 | A fat lot he even cared about being late for church and she trying to keep up a good style . |
| 3 | Like , sometimes it might be a prostitute , she never got paid for her services and she tries to claim she 's been raped . |
| 4 | In Dr S 's view , the discourse of the emotional is devalued in the rest of the department , and she tries to bring it to the fore . |
| 5 | She was still telling herself she should not be put out by a kiss from a youngster who did not realize what he was doing , and she tried to nod her golden head with an appropriate display of adult wisdom , as she said : ‘ Yes , you 're wasting your time . |
| 6 | He told her the others and she tried to memorize them , the positions and the titles . |
| 7 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 8 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 9 | Fear sliced through her and she tried to close her ears to the sound , but as if to mock her it was joined by another and another until the air was filled with a shaking roar . |
| 10 | The humiliation of her position was boundless , and she tried to close her mind to her awful predicament . |
| 11 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 12 | Her eyes widened suddenly in protest , and she tried to withdraw her hand , but his light grip tightened . |
| 13 | Her breathing was deep and she tried to control it , tried to stop herself hyperventilating . |
| 14 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 15 | He 's getting smaller , she thought , and she tried to watch him as she drove . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 17 | Sanborn was her idol and she tried to get to as many of his live gigs as possible when he was playing in New York . |
| 18 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 19 | Applying power , I forgot about the ‘ tail low ’ advice and she tried to dart off the left side of the runway before some firm right boot put us back in line for another go . |
| 20 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 21 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 22 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 23 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 24 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 25 | As she struggled and cursed he called out and she tried to run to him . |
| 26 | The other snaked into her hair and she tried to twist away from him , her eyes blazing in fury , but he was too strong , and his mouth claimed hers in a kiss that was brutal in its intensity . |
| 27 | Sarah 's confident manner temporarily deserted her and she tried to keep behind James as much as possible , hoping not to be noticed . |
| 28 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 29 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 30 | They lay on his jacket , and she tried to read while he tried to kiss her . |