Example sentences of "try [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wakil told a news conference that the President was being held in Kabul with ‘ those who tried to help him escape ’ . |
| 2 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 3 | He was standing there with Mrs Kasmin as she tried to give him tea . |
| 4 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 5 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 6 | Indeed , we have tried to offer him accommodation erm to help him , to offer him a deposit erm for a room . |
| 7 | If one of this teamleader 's clients said that another dealer had been trying to sell him stock , he would bellow : " What 's his name ? " |
| 8 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps Dennis also lunged a little bit and Fitzroy was maybe trying to protect him self . |
| 10 | I 'll go on trying to teach him things about art . |
| 11 | In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse . |