Example sentences of "[pers pn] tried [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 2 | Some of them tried to blow him up , too . |
| 3 | One of them tried to say something . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 5 | Neither of them tried to speak . |
| 6 | The other hairy moment was when one of them tried to eat my camera . |
| 7 | Another increasingly common way round the rules at the time was to engage in lease/lease-back arrangements , which became more and more complicated as the rules surrounding them tried to plug loop-holes , until they were finally outlawed in 1987 . |
| 8 | My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind . |
| 9 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 10 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 11 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 13 | ‘ Not one of them tried to escape , ’ he said . |
| 14 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 15 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 16 | I tried to suppress them , but instead more memories came back to me . |
| 17 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 18 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 19 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 20 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to do things too quickly and ended up feeling unwell for much of the time . |
| 22 | ‘ I tried to do far too much last year . |
| 23 | I tried to do my country proud but they have n't done the same by me . |
| 24 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 25 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 26 | But what I tried to do with ‘ The Leavetaking ’ is probably impossible in that it 's not psychologically true . |
| 27 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 28 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 29 | People would look at me and think , ‘ No , she 's not the type , she would never try to top herself ’ , but I tried to do it when I was in Cookham Wood . |
| 30 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |