Example sentences of "try [coord] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 2 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 3 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 4 | And in what might have proved a momentous extension of this diplomatic sequence , it was at Hendaye that in 1940 , after the fall of France , Hitler met Franco , to try and talk him into joining in the war on the German side against the British . |
| 5 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 6 | I felt I ought to try and phone him at home to tip him off — if I got the chance . |
| 7 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 8 | The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress ) |
| 9 | I 'd never endanger that , I 'd never try and separate him from his mother . ’ |
| 10 | Do you just try and quiet him by are you soothing ? |
| 11 | Indoors he can get through almost half a show with one guitar — but then I try and get him off that , so that we do n't have the problem of breaking strings . ’ |