Example sentences of "try [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 2 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 3 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |