Example sentences of "be trying [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't think I 'm trying to interfere in your personal life but … ’ |
| 2 | I 'm trying to diet on my own . |
| 3 | Partner Philip Evans , Scott troop , will be trying to improve on his last year 's time of 35 hours . |
| 4 | Ants were trying to return to their separate nests , or what was left of them , if anything . |
| 5 | In the uncomfortable silence that followed , while the others were trying to think of something tactful to say , the sound of a car pulling into the courtyard sounded unnaturally loud . |
| 6 | What were the problems these people were trying to handle with their various religious rituals and beliefs ? |
| 7 | This in front of someone I am trying to impress with my good health , my vivacious vitality , my lack of need to be there . |
| 8 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 9 | This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands . |
| 10 | He I 'm suppo he says to email him , contact him at the start of week zero , because he 's goin he he 's trying to remember of his own accord , but er ju this is just to give him a kick along in case he 's forgotten |
| 11 | Beside her sat old Mr Fennell , deathly white but fully conscious , while the distracted Chignell was trying to minister to them both at once . |
| 12 | Nutty was trying to put in her new contact lenses , which she found very difficult . |
| 13 | The poet suspected that the Doctor was trying to deal with his confused thoughts about the past . |
| 14 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |