Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , while attempting to hit him with a bat . |
| 2 | Was he attempting to force them to a stoppage in the hopes of taking over their lease ? |
| 3 | Attempting to beat someone to a pulp would be described in these terms . |
| 4 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 5 | The clarity and definition of rich pictures can be aided by using computer graphics ; however , attempting to construct them on a computer from the outset can impose artificial constraints , and the original pictures should always be drawn freehand . |
| 6 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 7 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 8 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 9 | Instead of switching allegiance to the ‘ unscientific ’ or , worse still , the ‘ sociological ’ cost-push hypothesis , most economists have kept faith with the concept of a determinate NAIRU and have attempted to recast it in a way which would help to explain why NAIRU tends to track the path of the actual unemployment rate so closely . |
| 10 | Over the last six months or so I have attempted to present you with a series of practical objectives designed and constructed to help achieve a higher degree of thoroughness in your command of the Pentatonic scale . |
| 11 | Although born into a working class Sydney family and involved in ALP politics since the age of 15 , Keating had never attempted to portray himself as a man of the people . |
| 12 | We did n't attempt to touch him for a lizard can easily lose its tail at the defensive snapping point . |
| 13 | Cable patterns draw the work in , do not attempt to introduce them into a pattern without working a tension sample first . |
| 14 | If you attempt to cut it with a knife , remove the thick brown skin from the portion to be sliced , paying great attention to the direction in which you are cutting — it is very easy for the knife to slip and the blade must travel away from you . |
| 15 | The Octobrist party , whose leaders attempted to provide him with a base of support within the Duma , found themselves coming under increasing criticism , and the party fell apart . |
| 16 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Simon attempted to pass me on a bend , but he lost the back end of his car and all control . |
| 18 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |