Example sentences of "he be trying [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace thought the Doctor sounded as if he were trying to coax a dog to do a trick . |
| 2 | Matt now lives in Los Angeles , where he is trying to launch a solo career . |
| 3 | He is trying to produce a generation which will eventually stay outside all year round . |
| 4 | This is more like , he 's trying to describe a scene to you or pictures to you , whether , whereas you can get poems that are just like emotional poems . |
| 5 | Well , well well in the book it said that , that , that that er this Gordon 's er is , he 's er , he 's trying to do a Truro . |
| 6 | I think he 's trying to do a number of things here |
| 7 | I was called away one morning , somebody came along to me and said will you come along to Street , there 's a chap playing up , old Harry , he 's trying to build a shed or something and it 's two o'clock in the morning , none of us can sleep , do come along with me . |
| 8 | He 's trying to get a bit closer . |
| 9 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |
| 10 | Bespectacled Baddiel is to host the new Channel 4 current affairs show Stab in The Dark and in the meantime he 's trying to complete a doctorate on Victorian sexuality if he gets any spare time . |
| 11 | He found Dougal in Celia 's little sitting room ; he was trying to persuade a shelf to lie flat on its brackets . |
| 12 | The silence and the stare were alarming , and faintly comic , as if he was trying to hypnotize a bird . |
| 13 | Yes , he was trying to get a divorce but he could n't . |
| 14 | He was trying to get a picture of the life that Steve and Ephraim had had together . |
| 15 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |
| 16 | The three of us often went off to ordnance depots where Eric bent all his efforts to persuading whoever was in charge to donate a load of blankets ( which made excellent winter coats and suits ) or , if he was trying to help a doctor , a set of motor tyres , which were worth their weight in gold . |
| 17 | He was trying to read a newspaper , but although he was out of the wind the pages kept on fluttering . |
| 18 | Delves said he was trying to strike a deal with an American corporation to build a hotel in the mountains . |
| 19 | I looked at the faces of the other soldiers to see if he was trying to make a fool of me . |
| 20 | He had his own band now ; he was trying to make a go of it full-time , and it was difficult . |
| 21 | The accident happened two years ago when he was trying to retrieve a football from the roof of the city 's derelict Rialto Ballroom . |