Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | French successes faltered , however , when the maid of Orleans , failing in her attempt to wrest Paris from the English in 1430 , was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 . |
| 3 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 4 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
| 5 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | Iraqi attempts to draw Israel into the conflict through the launching of Scud missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa failed . |