Example sentences of "attempts [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 2 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 3 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 4 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 5 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |
| 6 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 7 | Attempts to jail him on false charges , to bribe and threaten him had failed . |
| 8 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 9 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 10 | Soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema , who was divested by the national conference in August of all but his ceremonial powers [ see p. 38379 ] , twice stormed the national radio and television station on Oct. 1 , in separate attempts to return him to power . |
| 11 | ROY KEANE last night revealed he will hold off Nottingham Forest 's attempts to tie him to a new long-term contract . |
| 12 | All attempts to please him in any other way are mere mockery , and insults to the things by which you endeavour to do so . |
| 13 | He was amused by Claire 's attempts to introduce him to attractive women . |