Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 2 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 3 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 4 | erm And , of course , that was a symbol of all the problems of money that the king had , and the ordinary citizens of Oxford had in trying to provide him with it , mostly very reluctantly and unwillingly . |
| 5 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 6 | Do something before it goes ! ’ she cried , catching his arm and trying to shake him into action . |
| 7 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 8 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 9 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 10 | He knew that she was trying to help him save his marriage , and in a tiny part of himself he knew that she was right . |
| 11 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 12 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 13 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 14 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 15 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 16 | ‘ What was he doing there , anyway ? ’ 'Raoul was trying to tap him for money . ’ |
| 17 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 18 | The Scottish chaplains spent several months in trying to convert him to Presbyterianism . |
| 19 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 20 | She must be trying to lure him to it , the naughty girl . |
| 21 | He stared out of the glass tank , where a human was trying to interest him in marks on a blackboard . |
| 22 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 23 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 24 | As it turned out , his skills on the job have led to the department trying to regrade him into a more demanding post . |
| 25 | So I smiled nervously and slammed him in the mouth with the metal box , trying to kick him in the groin as he sagged , but his heavy overcoat protected him well . |
| 26 | My son Lio ! rt is trying to hack him to pieces . |
| 27 | The policeman talked , the reporter trying to jog him into revelations and failing . |
| 28 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 29 | Nenna looked at him more closely , trying to assess him as an ally . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |