Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] try [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution .
2 It was the very tactic which he had tried to use against the Woodvilles after Stony Stratford and which had then failed because the council refused to sanction their execution .
3 The distraught and guilt-ridden driver was unable to remember the number plates of the vans which he had tried to memorise at the time of the kidnapping .
4 It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return .
5 There is history in the accounts Kapuscinski gives of the confusions and uncertainties which he has experienced and which he has tried to interpret .
6 She knew that Hugh had been wrong in what he had tried to do , but she also knew that no real intimacy had taken place .
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