Example sentences of "[noun] try [to-vb] him [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 2 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 3 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 4 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 5 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 6 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 7 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |