Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 4 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 5 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 7 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 8 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 9 | He felt hammer blows to his arm before Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 11 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 13 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 14 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 15 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 16 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 17 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 18 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 19 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 20 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 21 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 22 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 23 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 24 | With that deceptively loose-limbed walk , he ambled towards her , and Hilary tried to picture him as a property developer and failed . |
| 25 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |