Example sentences of "try [to-vb] [pers pn] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 3 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 4 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 5 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 6 | Since France did not receive any substantial support for this scheme it did not try to propose it on behalf of the EEC . |
| 7 | Always trying to blame it on Man , as if God had nothing whatsoever to do with it . |