Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] [was/were] try [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years I used to knit exactly the number of rows quoted in the instructions , especially when I was trying to get friendly with the machine . |
| 2 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 3 | Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background . |
| 4 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 5 | But just as I was trying to explain it to her , they repeated the telephone number , so I rang them up . |
| 6 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 7 | It happened once while he was trying to make up his mind to do a very dangerous job in the last war . |
| 8 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 9 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 10 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 11 | Er very often when they were trying to do things . |
| 12 | Even if he was trying to show off , I still respected him . ’ |
| 13 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 14 | She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms . |
| 15 | The accident happened two years ago when he was trying to retrieve a football from the roof of the city 's derelict Rialto Ballroom . |
| 16 | Bruce Davidson was making a meal of explaining a straightforward case essentially because he was trying to impress Catherine Crane . |