Example sentences of "i tried [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 2 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 3 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 4 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 5 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 7 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 8 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 9 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 10 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |
| 11 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 12 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 13 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 14 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 15 | so I got four more , had a look round thought I saw it , but Traygo was heaving I tried to park by the erm garden centre , but to not only were there people all parked there , there was a great articulated lorry delivering stuff , so you went in and you could n't even then get out , go and park further up |
| 16 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 17 | I tried to shout like the two of them , but my cry came out strangled and distorted ; I just could n't express my anger in English . |
| 18 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 19 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 20 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 21 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 22 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 23 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 24 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 25 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 26 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 27 | I tried to think of the worst thing that Quigley had done . |
| 28 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 29 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |