He thought about trying to clear his head and decided against it.

I told him to try to clear his mind of every thought.

She decided to say no more to him and tried to clear her mind for sleep.

She wanted to try to clear her head to be able to think.

He died in 1956, still trying to clear his name.

And the police tried to clear the rest of the way.

He was suddenly trying to clear his head, and have a better look at the guy, but what had the man just said?

So why are they spending time and money trying to clear the name of a dead man 30 years on?

For a moment she tried to clear her head and think about what was going on.

All along, he had been trying to clear his name.