Example sentences of "try [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 2 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 3 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 4 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 5 | She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names . |
| 6 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 7 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first is to try to classify them in terms of the kinds of knowledge , procedures and criteria of judgement they involve . |
| 10 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 11 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 12 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 13 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 14 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 15 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 17 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 18 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 19 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 20 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 21 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 22 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 23 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 24 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 25 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 26 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 27 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 28 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 30 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |