Example sentences of "try [verb] [pron] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 2 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 3 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 4 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 5 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
| 6 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 7 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 8 | No we tried to talk her out of . |
| 9 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
| 10 | I said now you can shut that up right away , cos I said you know it 's not I said er now if you want us to try to help you out on this you just tell us what you did . |
| 11 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 13 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 14 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 15 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 16 | So , would we like to try printing something out from WordPerfect ? |
| 17 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 18 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 19 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 20 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 21 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
| 22 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 23 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 24 | Tried to argue him out of it , even suggested — very tactfully — that he saw a doctor . |
| 25 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
| 26 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 27 | As often , when one is confronted with what appears an intractable philosophical problem , there is an overwhelming temptation to try to argue it out of existence by showing that the linguistic expressions with which it is linked can be modified or paraphrased into other , less problematic , expressions without any loss of truth or philosophically relevant meaning . |
| 28 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
| 30 | The blokes tried to get us out with water — the firehoses . |