Example sentences of "tried [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to thank them , but I had nothing to give them . |
| 2 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 3 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 4 | They say its legally theirs , but the woman who tried to kill them claims she 's the owner . |
| 5 | She ceased to savour them and tried to drive them away . |
| 6 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 7 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 8 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 9 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 10 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 11 | Reports such as the Newsom Report ( 1963 ) were concerned to find ways to encourage young people to aspire to better jobs and television programmes tried to encourage them to set their sights higher . |
| 12 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 13 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 14 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 15 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 16 | Perkin tried to pull them apart and got smartly knocked down by Nolan , quick and tough with his fists as with his riding . |
| 17 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 18 | I tried to pull them out but I could n't . |
| 19 | In the early spring we received refugees of Jewish birth from Europe at the City Temple , and tried to find them homes . |
| 20 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 21 | But in touching them I tried to bless them , in a spirit of reverence . |
| 22 | In recent incidents , a youths stamped on a W P C's head as she tried to arrest them , and earlier this week an officer was injured when he and a colleague were attacked by a gang . |
| 23 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 24 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 25 | The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West . |
| 26 | When the clergy tried to calm them , the crowd declared that the valuables belonged to the people , not to the church , so that priests could not give them away . |
| 27 | Horses rearing and neighing , as ostlers and stable-boys tried to calm them down and lead them away . |
| 28 | Uncle Alfred tried to calm them down , but they only screamed louder . |
| 29 | But even had they sought to do otherwise , they felt obliged to fill the ‘ blind-alley ’ vacancies if only because employers would always manage to find workers for this type of employment however much the exchanges tried to frustrate them . |
| 30 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |