Example sentences of "[pron] tried [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 2 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 5 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 6 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 8 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 9 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 10 | I tried to shame him into giving some away . |
| 11 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 12 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 13 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 15 | And when she tried to interest him in niente acqua , he laughed as he limped round his shelves serving several customers at once and , shrugging his high shoulders , said , ‘ Non c'è pioggia , non c'è acqua . ’ |
| 16 | Now , he stood up and began to pace purposefully round the room , making Ari 's head whirl as she tried to follow him with her eyes . |
| 17 | She tried to tell him with her eyes as he advanced , hands balled into fists , but he did n't understand . |
| 18 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 19 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 20 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 21 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 22 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 23 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 24 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 25 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 26 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 27 | They tried to get him to America you see . |
| 28 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 29 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |