Example sentences of "try [verb] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nicholas tried to obtain an order from the court for the purchase of his shares in Magnetics or that the company be wound up . |
| 2 | The field , including eventual winner Sue Ogilvie , filed past as Smith tried to retrieve a shoe from the mud … |
| 3 | A variation was to try to extract a ransom from the owner for the return of the animal . |
| 4 | Like Charles II in the following century , Henry tried to secure a pension from France . |
| 5 | The UN special envoy Cyrus Vance also arrived in Sarajevo on March 5 to try to secure a commitment from political leaders to find a peaceful settlement . |
| 6 | In what seemed like an innocuous joke , Nicholas allegedly tried to steal a chip from a holiday-maker outside the ‘ Confusion Bar ’ in San Antonio on the holiday island of Ibiza . |
| 7 | Mr Marrack Goulding , the head of peacekeeping operations , tried to fix a deal from the Angola side , while the special representative in Namibia , Mr Martti Ahtisaari , went to the war zone . |
| 8 | It 's believed the man assaulted two officers and tried to snatch a gun from one of the officer 's holsters . |
| 9 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 10 | I tried to get a lift from every vehicle that passed , but Oliver only stuck out his thumb at cars he really wanted to ride in , and sometimes even scowled at drivers whose cars he disapproved of . |
| 11 | The track of the animals seemed likely to take them within two hundred yards of their hiding place , so they should crawl out onto the plain to try to get a shot from half that range . |
| 12 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 13 | He tried to remove a smudge from the windscreen with the tip of his finger , but it was on the other side of the glass . |
| 14 | It might indeed be stupid to try to stop a man from attacking a helpless woman … but … |
| 15 | And if calories are a bit of a worry , you can try making a sauce from a dash of rum mixed with some low-fat yoghurt . |
| 16 | Try growing a plant from a cutting . |
| 17 | Printed off on my er employer 's er computer and er put it in one of their envelopes and try to steal a stamp from them . |
| 18 | ( Try identifying a decision from the minutes of a committee . |
| 19 | You try to thumb a lift from the cars as they approach from either direction , sweeping you with their headlights . |
| 20 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 21 | For instance , when one tries to wean a patient from a ventilator , the patient can not be sedated heavily , because they 'll tend to breathe less , and therefore require the ventilator more . |
| 22 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 23 | The accident happened two years ago when he was trying to retrieve a football from the roof of the city 's derelict Rialto Ballroom . |
| 24 | Beside him , the youngest of the three was trying to pull a splinter from his palm . |
| 25 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 26 | The Resettlement Administration ( RA ) attempted to aid destitute farmers trying to scratch a living from exhausted land , as well as the predominantly black sharecroppers of the South . |
| 27 | Imagine an African peasant farmer trying to scratch a living from a few unyielding hectares . |
| 28 | ‘ Wake up , ’ Magee whispered , as if trying to rouse a lover from slumber . |
| 29 | Safety with electricity means never operating anything that has a worn or damaged flex ; never trying to run an appliance from a light socket ; never trying to run several appliances via an adaptor plugged into one socket ; and ensuring that all plugs are wired properly . |
| 30 | Quite right and proper but I did n't fancy trying to scrounge a lift from a back-bencher . ’ |