Example sentences of "try [to-vb] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 2 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 3 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 4 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 5 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 6 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
| 7 | Lowell had tried to form her in that woman 's image . |
| 8 | Had her father not tried to warn her after all ? |
| 9 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 10 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 11 | The next thing Paige became aware of was someone trying to cut her in two . |
| 12 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |