Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 2 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 3 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 5 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 6 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 7 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 8 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 9 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 12 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 13 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 14 | I tried to sell it to Ian |
| 15 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 16 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 17 | Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation . |
| 18 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 19 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 20 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 21 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 24 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 25 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 26 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 27 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 28 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 29 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 30 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |