I tried unsuccessfully to raise my head.
For a long time I had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get Grant excited about baseball.
Rand sought unsuccessfully to interview Wright as a source for The Fountainhead.
During a 12-hour standoff, police tried unsuccessfully to break into the bus.
After Ditka cited the mysterious passage, reporters scrambled unsuccessfully the next day to find the biblical source.
Wikipedia has tried, unsuccessfully thus far, to get Wikipedian photographers into red carpet events and award shows.
He cut open his patient's chest and tried, unsuccessfully, to massage his heart back to life with his bare hands.
I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
Kennedy's grandfather and James M. Curley. Mr. McMasters himself ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1938, wrote a play produced on Broadway and exposed a baseball betting scandal.
An hour later, my midwife tried unsuccessfully to coax me out of the tub. Shortly after that, I felt the urge to push.
The victims’ relatives are calling for justice, and the interim government has unsuccessfully sought the extradition of Mr Bakiyev from Belarus, where he has found exile.
What worries me most is that as we - so far unsuccessfully - try to gather the political consensus to take decisive action, opportunities for the younger generation are shrinking.
After banishing their father Cronus, Hera`s twin-brother Zeus sought her out at Gnossus in Crete or, some say, on Mount Thornax (now called Cuckoo Mountain) in Argolis, where he courted her, at first unsuccessfully.
So he sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent, searching unsuccessfully for the gleaming gems that brought such high prices on the markets of the world.
