Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not even Tim Wilson would try to question me about the Mahoney shooting . |
| 6 | 'cos only dickheads try to do it in a Ford Capri |
| 7 | Several men , faintly sinister and grubby , have tried to approach us in the Metro or on the street . |
| 8 | If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace . |
| 9 | It should have been something that the Royal Shakespeare did and not Tennents trying to turn it into a West End night out . ’ |
| 10 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |