Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 32 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 33 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 34 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 35 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 36 | The Serbs were aware that the powers were not genuinely interested in Serbian independence , and tried to play one off against the other . |
| 37 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 39 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 40 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 41 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 42 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 43 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |
| 44 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 45 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 46 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 47 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 48 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 49 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 50 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 51 | The brief church service and the burial at Oak Bay Cemetery were not impressive , and Emily 's three Vancouver friends ate a doleful dinner in the Empress Hotel that evening , although Lawren tried to cheer us up in his own inimitable way , and we were grateful . |
| 52 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 53 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 54 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 55 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 56 | Next thing , he tried to knock it down with his lawnmower — said it ‘ ran out of control ’ . |
| 57 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
| 58 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 59 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 60 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |