Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 2 | W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . |
| 3 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 4 | As a result we tried to understand the reactions and attitudes , both of those who kept in touch with a member of the birth family and of those involved in the ‘ clean break ’ approach . |
| 5 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 6 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 7 | At half-time he tried to encourage his players by reshuffling his forwards , but they never regained their form . |
| 8 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 9 | Things , though , went from bad to worse , and the following January I tried to commit suicide because I felt I could n't go on . |
| 10 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 11 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 12 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 13 | Chuck and Joseph , flushed and tousle-haired from their dip , looked in to bid her goodnight , and after they had returned to their hut she tried to resume her book by the lamp . |
| 14 | Whilst dressing the models she tried to chat to them and ask how they had come by their jobs but they were not very forthcoming . |
| 15 | Bacon exhibition includes work he tried to destroy |
| 16 | In giving most people middle-class aspirations it tried to rid the nation of its old-fashioned class structure . |
| 17 | I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun . |
| 18 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 19 | When she reached the apartment she tried to write , but sounds of crying children and raised voices came through the ceiling and walls . |
| 20 | At lunch-time in the kitchen she tried to cover the silence up by chattering about anything that came into her head , but her chattering made the silence more obvious . |
| 21 | The meeting whose dangers she tried to reason away by recourse to Freud . ’ |
| 22 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 23 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 24 | So pressing his camera to my eye I tried to focus on this tanned , happy man , standing with one boot over the edge of a 200- or 300-foot drop , and the other on the edge of thin air . |
| 25 | ‘ So I thought bugger this for a lark and got rid of them , and the next couple of days I tried to ring you , but … ’ |
| 26 | My eyes glued to the beer mat I tried to take in what was being said . |
| 27 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 28 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 29 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 30 | For years I tried to paint around grasses and tried masking fluid ; however neither approach gave me a satisfactory result . |