Example sentences of "and i tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 2 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 3 | Joan Warren and I tried to label each member as she came in , and the visitors ' book was passed round , but we inevitably missed people , so a head-count was impossible . |
| 4 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 5 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 6 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 7 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 8 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |
| 9 | And he said some things like ‘ And I tried so damn hard . ’ |
| 10 | There was a lot of saluting as we arrived and I tried to appear defiant when they looked at me . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe twelve stones and I tried to clean the lens . |
| 12 | So I called up Mah Muse and I tried to bribe |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 14 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 15 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 16 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 17 | I 've changed your body , and I tried to rewire a few of your neurons , but I 've left you alone where it counts . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 19 | There was a harshness to Inspector Drew 's questions , despite their quiet , almost conversational delivery , and I tried hard not to become uncomfortable under his eye . |
| 20 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 21 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 22 | I thought this was rather intriguing , and I tried to raise the matter here with the government , but I had no luck |
| 23 | And I tried to open a Giro bank account , and I put Mrs — [ Nigerian surname ] . |
| 24 | For one or two days he sat down with me , and I tried to teach him . |
| 25 | I understood that he was thanking me , and I tried to show him that I was his friend . |
| 26 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 27 | ‘ I sat on my bed and he sat by the door and we talked and I tried to persuade him to use his money to educate himself and he said he would but I did n't feel convinced . ’ |
| 28 | When I was Defence Secretary and , to my shame , trying to sell tanks to King Idris in Libya , I was pretty sure that he 'd be overthrown in an army coup , and I tried to identify the colonel who was likely to be the leader of the coup . |
| 29 | There was something lying on the ground in front of me and I tried to jump over it , but my feet would n't leave the ground and I sort of waded through it . |
| 30 | When we lived Earthside , Lollo and I tried everything : zeta-powered bikes , dune zoomers , no-grav gymnastics , the lot . |