Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 8 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 14 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 17 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 18 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 21 | Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips . |
| 22 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 23 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 24 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 25 | Her teaching mostly consisted of falling asleep while we children fought each other , but Mr Wopsle 's young cousin , Biddy , tried to keep us under control and teach us to read , write and count . |
| 26 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 27 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 28 | Tried to get us to stey up fur a slow wan . |
| 29 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 30 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |