Example sentences of "trying [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I even found myself trying to diagnose it like an illness , analysing it in terms of location , sensation , modalities , concomitants . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 3 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 4 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 5 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 6 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 7 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 8 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 9 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 10 | ‘ One needs to be very alert to go creeping round with a couple of bottles up one 's sleeve , trying to hide them in the coal-scuttle or under the sink . ’ |
| 11 | I , too , felt our meeting in Henry 's office was useful and I look forward to trying to provide you with a resource which you will find relevant . |
| 12 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 13 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 16 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 17 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 18 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 19 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 20 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 21 | ‘ We are still trying to organise something with the zoo but I have seen Emma and she is lovely . |
| 22 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 23 | It seemed that as mothers had usually hitherto had primary responsibility for child care , they were less likely than single fathers to neglect this function when trying to combine it with the role of breadwinner ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Behind me , Dennis had erected the punt-pole and was now drunkenly trying to lower it into the water . |
| 25 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 26 | The cause of this was somebody trying to spear me with a javelin , but a javelin with a yellow pennant tied to it . |
| 27 | ‘ Trying to fit everything into the calendar without having any major clashes is the biggest problem I face each year . ’ |
| 28 | She made a stab at a brittle laugh , trying to fit herself to the image of one of his sophisticated London women — a Wanda or Melissa who would hardly be embarrassed by such an admission . |
| 29 | You 'd have a problem trying to fit it into the sequence , would n't you ? |
| 30 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |