Example sentences of "tried [verb] them [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 2 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 3 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 4 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 5 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 6 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 7 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 8 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 9 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 10 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |