Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 .
2 He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road .
3 If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter .
4 Not even Tim Wilson would try to question me about the Mahoney shooting .
5 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 .
6 Several men , faintly sinister and grubby , have tried to approach us in the Metro or on the street .
7 Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning .
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