If not, she'd try to distract him and make a run for it.

He was trying to distract her, but it wasn't working.

My first thought was, "Is this man trying to distract us so he can take our money?"

But they were trying to distract me from something we'd all seen.

I tried to distract her but she would not have it.

She stayed up late, talking to people, trying to distract herself.

"Are you trying to distract me from the job at hand?"

She wanted to help and would begin by trying to distract me out of myself.

Clearly, she was trying to distract him- to buy time.

Then she would stop for 15 minutes and try to distract herself.