| No. | sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He tried to lie away her reputation. |
| 2 | The worker tried to Pierce a hole in a piece of leather. |
| 3 | He tried to explain, but the European just grinned and closed the door. |
| 4 | Scientists also have tried to grow human organs in animals that could one day be transplanted back into humans _ like a mouse onto whose back scientists grew a human ear. |
| 5 | Mary tried to turn the children against their father. |
| 6 | We tried to see who had been hurt, but the police told us to move on. |
| 7 | Both plans have been tried, but without success. |
| 8 | He tried to cover up his mistakes but in vain. |
| 9 | When attacked from the side, the crickets stridulated and tried to bite their attacker. |
| 10 | I have tried to practice this openness closer to home as well, by spending more time with Joe Biden's German shepherd puppy, despite our considerable difference in temperament and bite force. |
| 11 | He tried to rejuvenate himself by performing physical exercises each day. |
| 12 | She tried to gloss over her past mistake. |
| 13 | He tried his fortune in another city. |
| 14 | He tried to downgrade the latest research findings. |
| 15 | They tried to keep up the reputation of their firm. |
| 16 | The government tried to disband the illegal organization. |
| 17 | They initially tried to get outside funding for the project, but were rejected. |
| 18 | She tried to accommodate her way of life to his. |
| 19 | He tried to corrupt the policeman with money. |
| 20 | A painter who bemoaned the limitations of paint, he tried to convey something immaterial in his work, to lend shape to the invisible. |
| 21 | that tried to track how chain letters propagate by email suffered from selection bias because they included only posts that had been "fossilized" on newsgroup archives. |
| 22 | A woman was complaining to the neighbour that her husband always came home late, no matter how she tried to stop him. |
| 23 | Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen, the company's billionaire co-founder. |
| 24 | A hungry prairie dog carried on nibbling his nut as a flock of starlings tried to get his lunch, and he completely ignored them at st Louis Zoo in Missouri, US. |
| 25 | The couple were tried for treason. |
| 26 | This scenario has befallen several Yunnan cities that tried to cash in on the allure of Shangri-La. |
| 27 | They tried to chart the sea area between Norway and Denmark. |
| 28 | That said, at least one of the host nation trucking companies has tried to do battle instead of paying off insurgents and warlords. |
| 29 | Though badly damaged by fire, the bus tried to make for its garage. |
| 30 | They tried to humble your importance in that achievement. |