Example sentences of "try [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 2 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 3 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 4 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 5 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 7 | He tried to discourage her in every way . |
| 8 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 9 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 10 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 11 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 12 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 13 | A yellow child tried to interest her in a jar of dead flies . |
| 14 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 15 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 16 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 17 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 18 | Luke tried to steer her across the road , but she turned on him , her eyes heavy with shadows , her face pale and strained . |
| 19 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 20 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 23 | I wanted to double up all Wavebreaker 's standing rigging , just in case we did try to take her across the ocean . |
| 24 | She gets these surges of anger now and then , against injustice and evil and so on , no matter how often I try to remind her about the facts of life . |
| 25 | Professors Gordon Donaldson and I. B. Cowan have both tried to assess her as a character of history rather than drama , going further than Lady Antonia in considering her political role . |
| 26 | When he was well into his eighties , one of his housekeepers complained he had tried to get her onto the bed — at his age ! ’ |
| 27 | when he tries to rescue her from the fire . |
| 28 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 29 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 30 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |