Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] [noun sg] " 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 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 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 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 9 | Do I try to see it from the laibon 's point of view ? |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view . |
| 13 | when he tries to rescue her from the fire . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Forget about Papa and trying to protect me from the truth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Why , otherwise would the EC investigating lawyer be bombarded with phone calls all trying to dissuade him from a site visit ? |