Example sentences of "try [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 2 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 3 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 4 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ They tried to batter me into taking the job , then rang me at home and tried again . |
| 6 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 7 | Later , I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was . |
| 8 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 9 | He then frantically tried to revive her before leaving her face down in a copse . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to provoke her into doing so , but she said she 'd put you out of her mind completely — she 'd forgotten you , she said — which is nonsense of course — ‘ |
| 11 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 12 | An ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him before taking him to Arrowe Park Hospital where he died soon afterwards . |
| 13 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 14 | He put his head out of the window and tried to clam himself by attempting to identify the night sounds . |
| 15 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 16 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 17 | He wanted to withdraw our organization 's financial support for the conference , and tried to discourage me from remaining involved . |
| 18 | It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it . |
| 19 | She has revealed that another priest tried to pressure her into getting Jennifer adopted . |
| 20 | When you do n't get the best ball of the day and you still get out , the tendency can be to try to satisfy yourself by claiming good intentions — if the attitude is that ‘ there are no excuses : then you accept responsibility and responsibility is always judged in the context of what , to repeat myself , you can call ‘ appropriate cricket . ’ |
| 21 | I tried to shame him into giving some away . |
| 22 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 23 | Earlier , it was alleged that Casabona kidnapped the 15-year-old , raped her and tried to murder her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside . |
| 24 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 25 | Prior to losing the mollies ( male and female ) a number of young were produced and since I also only have one tank , I decided to try to save them by suspending a net breeding trap in the tank and transferring them to it . |
| 26 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 27 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 28 | John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that . |
| 29 | This is elementary contract law , because , obviously , once the contract has been formed it is too late to try to change it by adding additional terms ( see Olley v Marlborough Court Ltd [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |