Example sentences of "she try [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 2 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 3 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 4 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 5 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 6 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 7 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 8 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 9 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 10 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |