Sentence examples for attempt to deceive him from inspiring English sources

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It was hard, after it, to see Norwich gaining anything from a game in which they had worked hard but been able to create little, and their loss might have been heavier but for Bunn, who made good second-half saves from Victor Moses – who also shot just wide after bringing down a cross superbly on his chest – and from Mata's attempt to deceive him with a quickly-taken free-kick.

He is pretending to attempt to deceive him with a double bluff, in order to actually attempt to deceive him with a triple bluff.

After making a point-blank save from Ribery, the understated but very efficient Sommer then read the Frenchman's attempt to deceive him by getting down quickly to palm the ball past the post.

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Kleinzahler organizes many poems by simple accretion, detail following detail, as if any argument or story would imply an attempt to deceive: he therefore makes most points through juxtapositions.

Her scene with Diomedes that Troilus witnesses is her attempt "to deceive deceivers".

Linda and Cheryl unsuccessfully attempt to deceive Ash into believing they are no longer possessed, only to attack him again.

McConney said there had been no attempt to deceive.

Whereas Orwell in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" targets those who attempt to deceive, Carr targets the people.

Duncan Smith last week accused Cameron of insincerity and an attempt to deceive the public over EU immigration.

Iain Duncan Smith accused Cameron of insincerity and making an attempt to deceive the public over EU immigration.

Like the first there may be no intentional attempt to deceive as such.

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