Example sentences of "be trying [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to blame it on the parents but you do n't get a set of |
| 2 | if it 's really tight , slipping the clutch in first and what I 'm trying to do is I 'm trying to control it on the accelerator , you ca n't do it . |
| 3 | It was important , too , that we took time to understand the existing strengths of the Festival , while examining how we should be trying to position it in the future to maximise audiences . ’ |
| 4 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 5 | Both are there but it has no effect on plane polarised light , for instance , like , as if one of them is trying to rotate it to the left by so many degrees and the other one is rotating to the right by the said the amount . |
| 6 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 7 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |