Sentence examples for they did trying from inspiring English sources
On the pitch, Rangnick and Hoffenheim had no intention of spending as long in the 2. Bundesliga as they did trying to get into it.
The impressionists painted fast, or wanted it to look like they did, trying to capture the fleeting, transitory effects of sunlight, the random patterns and colours that passing clouds throw across a scene.
We are, after all, involved in the same enterprise as they, nothing more, nothing less; tenants of the same configurations, we are doing just as they did, trying to make our lives conform to the same spatial measurements, contained by the same walls, limited by the same width and height.
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, though, predicted that congressional Republicans would have a much easier time with taxes than they did trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, because that law had powerful opponents in hospitals, doctors and insurance companies.
To find most of this, I had to get on the email list for their new "online membership academy" which will have "uncut infield breakdowns weekly," meaning these self-styled masters give their students detailed pointers on how they did trying to pick up women on a given day.
They did try to talk him out.
Nevertheless, they did try, by having separate agents.
They did try to renegotiate his deal earlier in the year but talks did not develop.
When it came to Lunchables, they did try to add more healthful ingredients.
But they did try to make it difficult for their opponent to export goods.
