Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 5 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 6 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |