Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 2 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 3 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 4 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 5 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 6 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 7 | If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view . |