Example sentences of "[pers pn] have tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd tried to walk out along the trail , I would have met Perkin face to face . |
| 2 | I 'd tried Mr Nasty — zilch . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I 'd tried one-one-five , or five-five-one … or five-one-one , or five-five-five … |
| 4 | I 'm not sure that I really knew her and I 'm left wishing I 'd tried harder . |
| 5 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 6 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 7 | I 'd tried it once or twice before , a coupla times when I was younger , but I was n't over keen on it because of the , y'know , just 'cos of the name it 'd got really , y'know , having to inject it and that . |
| 8 | I 'd tried not to make my apartment look too intimidating . |
| 9 | I felt I 'd tried everything , I 'd tried to be a good wife , mother , mistress what else could I do ? |
| 10 | I felt I 'd tried everything , I 'd tried to be a good wife , mother , mistress what else could I do ? |
| 11 | If I 'd tried to run for it . |
| 12 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 13 | I 'd tried to keep my voice light , coaxing , but she studied me coolly as though she 'd picked up my unspoken reservations and would not forget them . |
| 14 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 15 | I 'd tried to safeguard myself by worming my way into her heart and confidences . |
| 16 | I 'd tried to help him before . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , well , ’ he murmured , softly , ‘ I could n't have worked that more smoothly even if I 'd tried , could I ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 19 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 20 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 21 | If I 'd tried I 'd of said yes . |
| 22 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |
| 23 | How would I have tried to be . |
| 24 | Should I have tried to go home this year ? wondered Pascoe guiltily . |
| 25 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 26 | I had tried to excuse our conduct by telling him we had just needed a wash . |
| 27 | For the first time , it occurs to me that my body has needs for food , needs of its own that I ca n't try to overrule with dieting and ferocious exercise and fasting ; and in a bigger way , I realise that I have needs of all kinds that I had tried to ignore : a need for food , a need to be loved , a need to feel accepted , a need for independence , a need to grow up , and a need for security . |
| 28 | I had tried since , alone and with others , and I 'd been tongue-tied . |
| 29 | I had tried to be first in order to get it over with quickly but now it was clear that I would be under the gaze of most if not all of the class . |
| 30 | I could never tell how good the ground was until I had tried the wheelbarrow on it . |