Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
| 4 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Climbing up a steep bank or trying to extricate itself from a mud hole is likely to produce squeals of distress from the infant and the adults nearby will rush over to see what is wrong . |
| 10 | The baby had been very demanding lately , and after trying to divide herself between the shop and the child she felt drained of energy . |
| 11 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 12 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 13 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 14 | They have an important part to play in providing care to those discharged after long stays in hospital and also in providing temporary homes and rehabilitation to those trying to re-establish themselves in the community . |
| 15 | A town best known for its links with the railways is trying to turn itself into a garden city . |
| 16 | They know that you are not trying to portray yourself as a know-all , that you have accepted being ‘ only human ’ . |
| 17 | He huddled up as if he was trying to roll himself into a ball . |
| 18 | They are trying to prepare themselves for a flight to the North Pole . |
| 19 | But she bore the pain stoically , trying to comfort herself with the thought that Luke was unaccustomed to failure with women . |
| 20 | And he was a little , he was like , try really trying to prove himself as an actor , I do n't know , bit over the top , |
| 21 | And now you 're trying to choke yourself on a drink of juice . |