The phrase "attempt to take it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort or endeavor to seize or acquire something.
Example: "Despite the challenges, she made an attempt to take it from him during the negotiation."
Alternatives: "try to seize it" or "make an effort to grab it."
In addition to supporting the new chairman, Fazel Ahmed Manawi, a former Supreme Court justice, the United Nations also endorsed a plan that would weaken a separate election-fraud monitoring body but would give Western representatives veto power over its decisions and would avert Mr. Karzai's attempt to take it over completely.
Any attempt to take it away constitutes discrimination.
I don't deserve all the credit, and I don't attempt to take it.
Natalie returned to Estonia, which astonishingly had managed to achieve independence, rejecting a communist attempt to take it over.
Though he has long fought City Hall, this was his first attempt to take it from the inside.
The investor agreed in August to sell his position in the movie studio after an unsuccessful attempt to take it over.
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, was in the bunker, and she recalls that when the flight crashed in Pennsylvania, its passengers apparently attempting to take it back from the hijackers, "there was that horrible time when we wondered if Flight 93 had indeed been shot down by an American pilot".
The issue is that of a religious organization that legitimately owns land being asked by a branch of the federal government to sell that land, and when the organization wishes to retain its property, the federal government attempts to take it anyway.
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.
When several Albanian players attempted to take it from him, a melee ensued.
Having nowhere to leave his porcine pal, Kisilev attempted to take it with him, but was stopped by police.
