Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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1 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
3 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
4 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
5 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
6 | He wanted to withdraw our organization 's financial support for the conference , and tried to discourage me from remaining involved . |
7 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
8 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
9 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
10 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
11 | She tried to clear them from her mind , but was broody over breakfast . |
12 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
13 | Little Jitka tried to grab it from Paddy 's hand . |
14 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
15 | God sent two angels to check out the city and the men of Sodom tried to kidnap them from their host , Lot , in order to have homosexual relations with them . |
16 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
17 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
18 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
19 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
20 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
21 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
22 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
23 | She found it behind the chair and picked it up , but Maggie tried to take it from her . |
24 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
25 | Rachel 's eyes lit up as she tried to take it from him . |
26 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
27 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
28 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
29 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
30 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |