Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 2 | He denies trying to kill her by piping car exhaust fumes into her bedroom . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're not still trying to accuse her of something underhand , are you ? ’ |
| 4 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 5 | One girl at the safe house said she was beaten up by two other girls trying to persuade her to ‘ go on the game ’ . |
| 6 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 7 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 8 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 9 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 10 | They soon gave up trying to draw her into conversation . |
| 11 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 12 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 14 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 15 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 16 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you have any intention of trying to keep her from me , I warn you , I wo n't stand for it ! ’ |
| 18 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 19 | When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground . |
| 20 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 21 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 22 | Retired school secretary Anne Stern , 73 , was on her way to spend Thanksgiving with relatives when two shabbily-dressed youths pulled in front of her and began trying to force her off the road . |
| 23 | But her imagination continued to torment her , replaying this last scene over and over again , as if trying to force her into admitting that the only person in her life who really cared about her might be dead . |
| 24 | He was n't trying to force her into anything . |
| 25 | She 'd never have to worry about Nathan Bryce trying to overwhelm her with charm . |
| 26 | He offered to tutor the girl , but after trying to teach her for a while , gave it up as he considered she was unable to focus on what she was being taught . |
| 27 | Some girls apparently continue screaming despite the fact that a number of fellows have already reached her and are trying to wrestle her to the ground . |
| 28 | I , on the other hand , am organised and punctual and trying to get her to be organised wears me out . |
| 29 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 30 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |