Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] he try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What bothers him , though , is the science that lies behind it ; he ca n't make head or tail of what he tries to read about it . |
| 2 | Part of me feels sorry for him , despite what he tried to do , what he did do . |
| 3 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 4 | Next year he ends the chase in which he tries to get the free-range hens . |
| 5 | Now began a new phase of his life in which he tried to live a grand , filmstar-type life in a huge house on three acres of land . |
| 6 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 7 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 9 | in Greek mythology , Bellerophon 's winged horse , on which he tried to fly to heaven . |
| 10 | I have no objection to what he tried to do . ’ |