he sought to # 02_EXO_02_15 # Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 
he sought to # 42_LUK_19_03 # And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.