If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

He tried to tell himself that maybe Burton had sobered up enough to get some sense.

He tried to run after B'dikkat, to hug the lead spacesuit, to tell B'dikkat that he loved him.

: How tried his valor, Marathon may tell,

The network first tried to tell a family saga with So ist das Leben – die Wagenfelds, before failing with Geliebte Schwestern.

If I tried too hard to tell them exactly how something happened, in the hope of correcting some fantasy, I was quite likely to be accused of trying to suppress Free Speech.

At around this time, the flight had a near midair collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315, reportedly missing the plane by only 300 feet, as air traffic controller Dave Bottiglia frantically tried to tell the Delta pilot to take evasive action.

Kitchener is said to have remarked early in World War One that he tried to avoid sharing military secrets with the Cabinet, as they would all tell their wives, apart from Lloyd George " who would tell someone else's wife ".

Once, Cain and Abel tried to steal Destiny's book from a pedestal, on the grounds that it would make him unable to tell stories.

Walser tried to keep them out by posting his followers at the Liberal train station to tell passengers that if they were Christians they were not welcome, according to an 1896 article in The Kansas City Star.

In 22, Wang Mang finally saw ( as many of his officials had tried to tell him earlier ) that the agrarian rebellions were posing a much greater threat to his rule than the Xiongnu.

Guido tried to tell the team that the man had vanished on him but Wolfsbane smells his blood on Guido's hands and a psychic scan by Monet reveals the truth.

) Later it comes out that there is no such disaster, and that her future self just tried to tell her not to worry too much about the future, which accidentally caused her worrying about the future.

He tried to make the Toad infiltrate the X-Men, but when that failed he captured the Angel and tried to force him to tell the secrets of the X-Men.

" Renzi said he had tried to tell the National Republican Congressional Committee that the negative ads were the wrong way to go.

In earlier centuries, a challenge to a particular juror would be tried by other members of the jury panel, and the challenged juror would take an oath of voir dire, meaning to tell the truth.

Many stories tell of travelers who have tried to palm the Fossegrimen off with an inadequate piece of meat, resulting in the Fossegrimen just teaching the student how to tune his fiddle rather than play it.

He said that, when he tried to turn to his family as a child to tell them about the abuse, they ignored him ( Neither Jonathan or Rick will say who the person was, though both say it was a woman ).

The only people, besides Gary, who know about his gift are his parents ; his friends Chuck Fishman ( a former fellow stock broker ) and Marissa Clark ( the blind former receptionist at the brokerage ); and Erica and Henry Paget, a single mother and her son ( Gary gives Erica a job at McGinty's ) though he tried to tell a few people such as his attorney and various police officers ( Episode 407 / 408, " Fatal Edition ").

Tracy Grammer gave her account of Carter's final moments in a letter to fans: " Yesterday, shortly after he went unconscious, he came back for a lucid minute or two to tell me, ' I just died ... Baby, I just died ...' There was a look of wonder in his eyes, and though I cried and tried to deny it to him, I knew he was right and he was on his way.

Constantius tried to lure Gallus, sending the tribunus scutariorum Scudilo to tell Gallus that Constantius wanted to raise him to Augustus.

I must tell you that I immediately won the sympathy of the whole orchestra and that out of all the new works they tried over, and Richter said there were sixty of them, they liked my Rhapsody best of all.

He tried to ask the Lady Da how long they had had the drug, and how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again.

Although Jane Austen tried her hand at the epistolary in juvenile writings and her novella Lady Susan, she abandoned this structure for her later work.

An early inkling of changing attitudes came in 1960, when the government of the day tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Penguin Books for obscenity, for publishing the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been banned since the 1920s for what was considered racy content.

As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, " The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup ", but " despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up ".

Dudley's youth was overshadowed by the downfall of his family in 1553 after his father, the Duke of Northumberland, had unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne.

When he tried to skirt around Tepeyac hill, the Lady intercepted him, assured him his uncle would not die, and asked him to climb the hill and gather the flowers he found there.

He then tried to get into " society " by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux ( the first black man to contend for a championship ) and subsequently married Flashman's mother Lady Alicia Paget, a fictional relation of the real Marquess of Anglesey.

When Lady Eleanor went to ask him for the return of her property, it was said that Edward tried to persuade her to sleep with him, and when she refused, that he promised to marry her.

Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square ( 1997 ) was well received by critics, and Jane Campion tried her hand with The Portrait of a Lady ( 1996 ) but with much less success.

They have tried to keep the contents of this Book a secret, although it has been published on a number of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Bolt's work for director David Lean garnered him particular acclaim and recognition, and Bolt tried his hand at directing with the unsuccessful Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ).

Nelson tried to score another hit, but did not have any luck with songs like " Rock and Roll Lady ".

John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG ( 1504 – 22 August 1553 ) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.

Mrs Western now tries to persuade Sophia to marry Lord Fellamar, but she tells her aunt how he tried to force himself on her in Lady Bellaston's house.

Johnson later said: " I couldn't have been more shocked about Walter Jenkins if I'd heard that Lady Bird had tried to kill the Pope.

Meanwhile, Yang Guozhong's wife Pei Rou, son Yang Xi ( 楊晞 ), the Lady of Guo, and the Lady of Guo's son Pei Hui ( 裴徽 ) tried to flee, but were killed in flight.

" She tried intermittently to do what was expected of her, but she never convinced people that her heart was in it, and her tenure as First Lady

Some commentators have tried to style prime ministers ' wives as " First Lady of Canada ", similar to the style of First Lady used in republics, but this is not a recognized title.

The First Lady tried to have the overcrowded mansion enlarged, but was unsuccessful.

Lady Carnarvon saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called " the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known ".

Lady Alice's case was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester.

Their father was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who led the English government from 1550 – 1553 under Edward VI and unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death in July 1553.