Example sentences of "a attempt [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 2 | Sadly little attempt to discuss Eakins work in terms of nineteenth-century Realism or its American philosophical context — an attempt to compare him with Whitman is not fully argued — but the remarks on his Quaker background are telling . |
| 3 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 4 | He was arrested in 1983 in New York , but an attempt to extradite him to the UK as a convicted criminal failed when a judge ruled that his crime was political . |
| 5 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 6 | In addition to these sermons on the principal Holy Days of the Church , Andrewes preached before the King each year on the anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and on that of James 's escape whilst King of Scotland from an attempt to murder him by the Earl of Gowrie and his brother . |
| 7 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 8 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 9 | Maj.-Gen Bantu Holomisa , the leader of the ruling Military Council in the nominally independent Transkei homeland ( whose independence was not internationally recognized ) , accused South Africa of being behind an attempt to remove him from power on Nov. 22 . |
| 10 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 11 | In October of that year the King came to Compiègne as the guest of the Emperor and Empress , who both deployed all their charms in an attempt to woo him into a declaration of support for France . |
| 12 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 13 | The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line . |
| 14 | Pascoe had now told the police what he had told her , about a fierce row with MacQuillan on Thursday and an attempt to confront him on Friday . |