Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We are still trying to organise something with the zoo but I have seen Emma and she is lovely . |
| 3 | ‘ Trying to fit everything into the calendar without having any major clashes is the biggest problem I face each year . ’ |
| 4 | Because — oh , because I 'm trying to help someone outside the family . |
| 5 | As Labour 's spokesman on Northern Ireland , one might enquire whether he would not be better employed trying to do something about the vermin planting bombs in the Six Counties rather than those worrying sheep in the Home Counties . |
| 6 | It was no use trying to resolve anything over the phone , though . |
| 7 | she 's been trying to get something for the mother of the bride . |
| 8 | Like I 've been trying to tell everyone from the beginning . ’ |
| 9 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 10 | Phoenix-like , it is reportedly trying to become something in the nature of a superconsortium leveraging its test suite expertise into an organisation that ports and develops test suites for the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co , DEC and the IBM/Apple Computer Inc PowerPC crowd , and probably does the branding and handles ISV recruitment . |