Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 2 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 3 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 4 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 5 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 6 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 7 | He tried to pull her to him . |
| 8 | She saw a small coffee shop on the other side of the lane and , taking Dana 's arm , tried to pull her with her . |
| 9 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 10 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 11 | It was pointless to try to catch them on their own ground as their friends were too numerous and their alibis too readily available . |
| 12 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 13 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 14 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 15 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 16 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 17 | tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while . |
| 18 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 19 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 20 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 21 | When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no . |
| 22 | ‘ But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . ’ |
| 23 | But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . |
| 24 | ‘ But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 , ’ she said . |
| 25 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 26 | She tried to give it to me |
| 27 | If " they " tried to kiss you with your mouth open you must keep your teeth tight shut . |
| 28 | He tried to warm her with his body but he was so cold himself he did n't know if it would work . |
| 29 | He tried to warm them with his hands . |
| 30 | She tried to clear them from her mind , but was broody over breakfast . |