Example sentences of "try [verb] him [prep] his [noun sg] " 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 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 3 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 4 | Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish ? |
| 5 | So several of us tried standing him on his head and quickly reversing him . |
| 6 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |
| 7 | For years Claudia had tried to reconcile him to his mother . |
| 8 | The memory of his last visit would not leave her ; there was a jagged edge to it — for had she not tried to force him against his will and had he not been aware of that and too kind to give her the direct reaction she deserved for her over-boldness ? |
| 9 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
| 10 | The mother has tried locking him in his room , and smacking him . |
| 11 | He 'd avoided giving her a direct answer when she 'd tried to ask him about his friendship with the actress , but it was obvious that there was a very real chemistry between them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |
| 16 | And last night , instead of trying to comfort him for his loss , he told him it was God 's vengeance upon him . |