Example sentences of "[adj] he tried [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few he tried to pull free simply fell apart in his hands , scattering their petals like so much unwanted litter . |
| 2 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 3 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 4 | In the Eighties he tried to find success with his ex-wife , Anoushka , who for a while was signed to Rusty Egan 's Metropolis label as a potential new romantic diva . |
| 5 | Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly . |
| 6 | This goes back to his championing of Switzerland ; in 1809 he tried to challenge the Government with a tract On the Convention of Cintra . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ Good-bye , Mister Johnny , ’ and smiled at him , and at first he tried to smile back , twitching the good side of his mouth . |
| 8 | A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits . |
| 9 | As usual he tried to smooth things over , but Mum was adamant . |
| 10 | At the Bermuda meeting with Eisenhower in December 1953 he tried to woo the president with a promise that , if the communists broke the cease-fire in Korea , Britain would agree to the use of nuclear weapons against military targets . |
| 11 | After the collapse of the plot Montgomerie fled to London , but he continued to engage in Jacobite intrigue , and in late 1691 he tried to encourage a rising of Presbyterian extremists in the south-western lowlands . |
| 12 | In 1990 he tried to register ownership of the land but his claim was opposed by the county council and residents . |