Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 2 | He tried to take her in his arms , but she pulled away . |
| 3 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 4 | It has since emerged he sent the letters from a York Post Office on that day before trying to gas himself in his car and take an overdose over the weekend . |
| 5 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only trying to put myself in his place , ’ Carrie said . |
| 7 | If she were him she would want to , but she knew now that it was no use trying to put herself in his place . |