Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pron] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 4 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 5 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 6 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 7 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 8 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 9 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 10 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 11 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 12 | I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained . |
| 13 | One could try to approach it with the notion of spheres of competence . |
| 14 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 15 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 16 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
| 17 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 18 | The judge may have tried to throw you with an interruption partly because you were reading your argument in a monotonous way . |
| 19 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 20 | I , too , felt our meeting in Henry 's office was useful and I look forward to trying to provide you with a resource which you will find relevant . |
| 21 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 22 | ‘ We are still trying to organise something with the zoo but I have seen Emma and she is lovely . |
| 23 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 24 | It seemed that as mothers had usually hitherto had primary responsibility for child care , they were less likely than single fathers to neglect this function when trying to combine it with the role of breadwinner ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | The cause of this was somebody trying to spear me with a javelin , but a javelin with a yellow pennant tied to it . |
| 26 | I think of my role as trying to guide them with the interface of the business side , the bits that they might not be interested in or do n't want to be involved in . |
| 27 | Just reading here where it says that erm B and Q they 're having a slanging match with Texas cutting all their prices paints tools they 're trying to outdo them with the prices . |
| 28 | I have always thought that maybe I had damaged the transfer needle by trying to use it with the ribber bed on half pitch . |
| 29 | For the moment , Simon is busy trying to familiarise himself with the mysteries babies bring into the home — such as nappies . |
| 30 | But she bore the pain stoically , trying to comfort herself with the thought that Luke was unaccustomed to failure with women . |