Example sentences of "he tried [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible . |
| 3 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 4 | 8 a ) That he tried to live in an ivory tower . |
| 5 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 6 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 7 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 8 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 9 | With an effort of will he tried to stop it but it carried on trembling . |
| 10 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 11 | A GRANDFATHER was killed by a single punch as he tried to stop a gang of drunken teenagers ripping up his garden fence while he hosted a family barbecue . |
| 12 | He tried to stop documents , which revealed Government involvement , coming into the open , it was revealed . |
| 13 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 14 | The chow-chow sank his teeth into Ravi Bhatiasevi 's arm when he tried to stop him fighting another dog . |
| 15 | When he came back she said she 'd go out herself tomorrow , and if he tried to stop her she 'd smash up all his crockery . |
| 16 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 17 | Often he tried to stop her leaving the house . |
| 18 | His face was twitching ; he tried to stop it , and failed ; looked for Rogers and could n't see him ; lost track of position and direction and why he was up there at all . |
| 19 | As he tried to stop the helicopter from going into a spin , it travelled further than he planned because he 'd mistaken the direction of the wind . |
| 20 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 21 | Police say the 45year-old ex-steelworker was kicked and beaten to death when he tried to stop a gang of vandals near his home . |
| 22 | Graham Levy broke a chair on his wife 's back , hit her with a table leg and struck the boy as he tried to stop the attack . |
| 23 | As he tried to leave the field the ball suddenly dropped at his feet and he attempted a long-range crossfield pass aimed at Gordon Strachan . |
| 24 | He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country . |
| 25 | A 46-six-year old father of three died after his booby-trapped car exploded and burst into flames as he tried to leave Castle Street car park on April 6 1991 . |
| 26 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 27 | As firemen finally brought the tanker blaze under control , the captain was asked why he tried to dock his ship in fog , rain and seas whipped up by a force nine gale . |
| 28 | He tried to sit up , but the most cautious movement threw his tormentors into a mania of activity and his stomach hurled a messy bile into his mouth . |
| 29 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 30 | ‘ Our client touched the ground on the island while he tried to control the dog and received a very strong electric shock . |