Example sentences of "attempt [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia spoke carefully because she did not wish to give the impression that she was attempting to divert Betty from Beuno for nefarious reasons of her own . |
| 2 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 3 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 4 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |
| 5 | But attempts to galvanize Chiang into action were largely futile . |