Example sentences of "try [to-vb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
2 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
3 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
4 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
5 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
6 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
7 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
8 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
9 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
10 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
11 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
12 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
13 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
14 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
15 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
16 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
17 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
18 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
19 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
20 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
21 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
22 | His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do . |
23 | I roll off my own bank , and try to follow him with the pipper . |
24 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
25 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
26 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
27 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
28 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
29 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
30 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |