Example sentences of "i have [adv] tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have even tried knitting the pattern without taking the yarn out of the yarn feeder to do the transfer rows indicated at the side of the punchcard . |
| 2 | But I have also tried to spread the knowledge of the past criminal misuse of human genetics in Nazi Germany . |
| 3 | I have also tried to divide the particular provisions of the precedents into chapters , where appropriate , but I feel that the agreement does not lend itself to such a division , and I have therefore dealt with that in a chapter by itself . |
| 4 | ‘ I have also tried to establish some sort of memorial within the nature park where Julie and Elizabeth were murdered but South African officials at the embassy do n't seem particularly interested . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have just tried to learn the positive things from people before me who have been dropped . ’ |
| 6 | I have already tried to describe her beauty . |
| 7 | What was peculiar about my own circumstances I have already tried to describe in the hope of finding and revealing some useful clues . |
| 8 | I have already tried to explain his views by reference to his ideas about democracy and law . |
| 9 | I have since tried other patterns doubled and some look really super . |
| 10 | I have merely tried to unravel what I take to be some of the main underlying oversimplifications which have informed educational practices in the field of ‘ race ’ and education , whether state-led or self-consciously oppositionist . |
| 11 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 12 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 13 | Rose Macaulay , so often mentioned by Ivy , was the only other person whom I have ever tried to meet — unsuccessfully , for dates did not fit . |
| 14 | Not that I have ever tried . ’ |
| 15 | How he could just sit there in that silence was the hardest thing I have ever tried to figure out . |
| 16 | I have often tried to describe it to myself , he wrote , but never with much success . |
| 17 | ( I have often tried to analyse what makes this statement so amusing , and I have come to the conclusion that it is due to the words ‘ all ’ and ‘ large ’ , so that the idea becomes a preposterous one . ) |
| 18 | I have certainly tried to argue that it makes sense to talk of God inviting trust by withholding the sort of evidence which might admit of certainty that He exists . |
| 19 | I have therefore tried to discover some way in which this House can fulfil its duty to decide the case before it without trespassing on the sensibilities of the House of Commons . |
| 20 | Which is why I have always tried to insist that my players have proper ways of relaxing away from their work . |
| 21 | I have always tried to do my best for Mandy . |
| 22 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 23 | ‘ Since then , I have always tried to make things even . |
| 24 | Even at the club level I have always tried to bring in people from lower divisions because , sooner or later , the people playing low down will get higher up — some , not all of them . |
| 25 | While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid . |
| 26 | I have always tried , in these cases , to ensure that any diversification we seek is found in an area which is contiguous to our own skill base . |
| 27 | ‘ I have always tried to live in an ivory tower , but a tide of shit is beating at its walls , threatening to undermine it . ’ |
| 28 | I have never tried it before . ’ |