Example sentences of "[pers pn] try [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 2 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 3 | Last week in my talk I tried to give you an introduction to the subject we call art . |
| 4 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 5 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 6 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 7 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 8 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 9 | Well , six fifty I got if for like , I try give him a six hundred and he ummed and ahhed and then he said well he said well I 'll take the six hundred he said , can you manage the hundred quid over the next five or six weeks ? |
| 10 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 11 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 12 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 13 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 14 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 15 | Could you try to contradict yourself a little less ? |
| 16 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 17 | ‘ We try to give him a little less tranquilliser each time , so that he might gradually get over it , but he does n't seem to get any better . |
| 18 | However , this approach holds dangers for him which become apparent when we try to discover what a contradiction is . |
| 19 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 20 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 21 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 22 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 23 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 24 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 25 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 26 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 27 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 28 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 29 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 30 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |