Example sentences of "tried [verb] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 2 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 3 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 4 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 5 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 6 | Later , I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was . |
| 7 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 8 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 9 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 10 | He put his head out of the window and tried to clam himself by attempting to identify the night sounds . |
| 11 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 12 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 13 | Earlier , it was alleged that Casabona kidnapped the 15-year-old , raped her and tried to murder her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside . |
| 14 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 15 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 16 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 17 | My father tried to stop her by standing in her way , so she ran him over and broke his leg quite badly , on the path before the bridge . |
| 18 | Men tried to burn the distaffs while the women tried to stop them by throwing buckets of water . |
| 19 | ‘ The three are married together , ’ he said , and then tried to prove it by citing the events of a previous day . |
| 20 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |