Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] him [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
2 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
3 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
4 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
5 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |