Sentence examples for attempted to kill him from inspiring English sources

Learning of this, his father attempted to kill him.

"I attempted to kill him, and he talked me out of it," Mr. Devlin said.

Though his mother belonged to the ruling Bacchiadae dynasty, clan members attempted to kill him at birth because his father was an outsider.

A few months ago, someone reportedly attempted to kill him with an explosive device concealed in a phone, and so his men collect phones, too.

His high profile in the dark world of terrorism and counter-terrorism attracted unwelcome attention from the IRA, who in 1990 attempted to kill him in London with a bomb planted in a lectern where he was due to speak.

Claiming that Holmes distracted him "from better things," Conan Doyle famously in 1893 (The Final Problem) attempted to kill him off; during a violent struggle on Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls, both Holmes and his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, are plunged over the edge of the precipice.

I was attempting to kill him.

After the 1998 Belgian grand prix, he accused David Coulthard of attempting to kill him after another collision.

As a result, Lex attempts to kill him.

Shane eventually attempts to kill him but is stopped when Rick tackles him.

Because Hamlet knows what he did, Claudius attempts to kill him.