Example sentences of "try [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 2 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 3 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 4 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 8 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 9 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 10 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 11 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 12 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 13 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 14 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 15 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 16 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 17 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 18 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 19 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 20 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 21 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 22 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 23 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 24 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 27 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 28 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 29 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 30 | 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 . |