Example sentences of "[noun prp] for trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , he felt annoyed at Eleanor for trying to wring sympathy out of him in this way . |
| 2 | The story concerns Crowland 's bailiff , Ashford of Helpstone , who in 1076 was summoned by Ingulph before the King 's Justices at Stamford for trying to extort land from the abbey . |
| 3 | Contempt writs have been served against the Home Secretary and his predecessor Kenneth Clarke for trying to deport the legal guardian of six Nottingham children who were prohibited from leaving the country . |
| 4 | Contempt writs have been served against the Home Secretary and his predecessor Kenneth Clarke for trying to deport the legal guardian of six Nottingham children who were prohibited from leaving the country . |
| 5 | ATHENS ( Reuter ) — A Briton , named as Derek Smith , 49 , was arrested in Greece for trying to sell 5.5lb of radioactive uranium to a nuclear research centre in the outskirts of Athens . |
| 6 | Five years earlier he had been fined £100 by magistrates at Uxbridge for trying to smuggle cannabis and LSD through customs at Heathrow Airport . |