Example sentences of "try [verb] [pron] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 3 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 4 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 5 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 6 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 7 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 8 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 9 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 10 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 11 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 12 | Do I try to see it from the laibon 's point of view ? |
| 13 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 14 | And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ? |
| 15 | Or where do I — can I write down an address on a piece of paper and I will try to mail them from the hotel . |
| 16 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 17 | If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view . |
| 18 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 19 | when he tries to rescue her from the fire . |
| 20 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Forget about Papa and trying to protect me from the truth . |
| 23 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 27 | Like I 've been trying to tell everyone from the beginning . ’ |