Example sentences of "try [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 5 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 6 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 7 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 8 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 9 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 10 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |