Example sentences of "[noun sg] who try [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any teacher who tries to devise a syllabus for a music class that will appeal to the members of the class for its relevance , or who attempts to attract the English class by giving them things to read or act that will speak to them in their own language is in danger of falling into the trap of ‘ thinking down ’ to his pupils , of condescending to them . |
| 2 | Their suspicions were heightened by the case of S. G. Nechaev ( 1847–82 ) , an amoral firebrand who tried to build a rigidly disciplined organization by brazen deception , and to assert his own authority by involving his fellow conspirators in the murder of one of their number . |
| 3 | ‘ For a man who tries to earn a few bucks selling information to the Press , you friend plays 'em close to the chest . ’ |
| 4 | The report mentions one case of a man who tried to sell a plant which would convert rubbish into natural gas , and was only unmasked as a fraud at a late stage when it was shown that his scheme involved a chemically impossible process . |
| 5 | Video pictures have been released of a man who tried to snatch a baby girl from her pushchair . |
| 6 | A MAN who tried to grab a briefcase containing a substantial sum of cash from a man in North Ormesby market-place , Middlesbrough , is being hunted by police . |
| 7 | A MASKED man who tried to attack a courting couple in their car was a serial rapist , police believe . |
| 8 | A SCHOOLBOY who tried to rape a young policewoman ended up by being dragged by the hair to the south London station where she was based , an Old Bailey jury was told today . |
| 9 | Run down by her own car … the nurse who tried to stop a thief . |
| 10 | POLICE hunting a bogus social worker who tried to snatch a child have arrested a woman . |
| 11 | Well it 's like those lads that time who tried to nick a snooker table , they got it , they got it about a hundred yards |