Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 4 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 5 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 6 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 7 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 8 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 9 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 10 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 11 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 12 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 13 | They tried to get him to America you see . |
| 14 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 15 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 16 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 18 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
| 19 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |