Example sentences of "try [to-vb] he [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 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 11 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 12 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 13 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 16 | I could see from the four small puncture marks on Fenella 's wrist that she had tried to stroke him during lunch . |
| 17 | Do something before it goes ! ’ she cried , catching his arm and trying to shake him into action . |
| 18 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 19 | ‘ What was he doing there , anyway ? ’ 'Raoul was trying to tap him for money . ’ |
| 20 | The Scottish chaplains spent several months in trying to convert him to Presbyterianism . |
| 21 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 22 | There are , of course , further complications , notably in the form of Cherubino , an adolescent page-boy who is romantically in love with the countess ( a feeling which is almost mutual , and to which the count takes exception ) , and in the fact that Figaro is being pursued by an old harpy named Marcellina , who is trying to trick him into marriage with her . |