Example sentences of "i 've tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stavrogin writes : ‘ I 've tried the depths of debauchery and wasted my strength over it ; but I do n't like debauchery and never wanted it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'VE TRIED to imagine what it 's like to drown . |
| 3 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 4 | It is important to create , as I 've tried to do at British Coal , a sense of challenge . |
| 5 | I 've tried to love my stepson but I really resent him . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've tried growing interesting plants in grass but it 's very hard . |
| 7 | I know because I 've tried it as well , and I would say it was a large contributing factor to a breakdown of understanding , because at this point I was watching the deterioration of the relationship between Tony DeFries and David . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've tried telling the police , but they still think Liam 's in your house . |
| 9 | He had not helped his cause when he ‘ trotted blithely down the steps to greet eager reporters with the news ‘ Its all off boys ’ ’ and added , to cries of ‘ Jimmy 's selling you ’ the ripost that ‘ I 've tried boys , I 've done my very best . |
| 10 | I 've tried 'em all and I know . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've tried all ways . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've tried to impress on people - I go round the schools and catch them young — that if they do n't leave us their stuff , uncaring descendants may simply throw out a tool , plate , picture or letter , preferring to have a stainless-steel fork , a plastic plate , a multiple … ’ |
| 13 | I 've tried it and decided he 's got different genes and will never change . |
| 14 | I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help . |
| 15 | I 've tried , believe me . |
| 16 | Since then I 've tried to forget it . |
| 17 | The commission for the piece came from Life magazine , but due to a change in publishers the images never ran , ‘ I 've tried to sell it overseas and in Europe and had very good success with it . |
| 18 | Personally I 've tried to keep that in perspective . |
| 19 | She said , as she was lying there , ‘ I feel , Dame Edna , I can talk about anything to you and I 've never had this experience before when I 've tried to talk to people . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've tried to cross-reference food historians with cookery writers , who tend to brush aside the contribution of black slave cooks . |
| 21 | And I 've tried to stay true to the original recipes given to me by members of my family , even though some of them wo n't be very popular — I think the brains and chitterlings [ pigs ' intestines ] recipes are of historical interest only ! ’ |
| 22 | In fact I feel sure I 've tried with your correspondent Richard , or someone very like him . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've tried five organizations to get it to stop , including the Red Cross and the Salvation Army . |
| 24 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 25 | Her husband , Prince George of Denmark , was a large , hard-drinking , notoriously dull ex-soldier , of whom Charles II had observed , ‘ I 've tried him drunk and I 've tried him sober but there 's nothing in him . ’ |
| 26 | Her husband , Prince George of Denmark , was a large , hard-drinking , notoriously dull ex-soldier , of whom Charles II had observed , ‘ I 've tried him drunk and I 've tried him sober but there 's nothing in him . ’ |
| 27 | I 've tried every place . |
| 28 | I 've tried , I 've tried but he 's always worn briefs . ’ |
| 29 | I 've tried , I 've tried but he 's always worn briefs . ’ |
| 30 | I 've tried speaking to Jean-Paul on the telephone , and it 's hopeless . |