Example sentences of "try [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 4 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 5 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 6 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 10 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 11 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 12 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 16 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 17 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 18 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 19 | My purpose in what follows is to try to place him within a Mexican context . |
| 20 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 21 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 22 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 23 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 24 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 25 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 26 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 27 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 28 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |