Example sentences of "[adv] trying [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The singing damsel , like the earth is a creator , superior to Coleridge because he is merely trying to recreate rather than create . |
| 2 | They will be constantly trying to get back into licensed dealers , or else will settle for a different sort of trickery . |
| 3 | We once had a horse who was as quiet as a lamb on the lunge and worked very well , but the moment he was ridden , he became very tense , grinding his teeth and constantly trying to run away . |
| 4 | The pursuit and creation of stars , for example , occupies a large part of the story that A Scott Berg has to tell : Goldwyn was constantly trying to sign up the human properties who would ensure the success of his pictures . |
| 5 | No it 's alright we 're only trying to work somewhere , somewhere quiet . |
| 6 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 7 | He could have seen Piers was only trying to cover up his feeling of insecurity . |
| 8 | Well I 'm only trying to find just a few more recordings for her because they 're coming towards the end of the er |
| 9 | " I want to know what you 're up to , " he said , and I do n't think he believed me when I told him I was only trying to find out whether there were any rabbits who wanted to leave the warren . |
| 10 | They were often together trying to think how the babies had got into this state . |
| 11 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 12 | Even if you can actually design antibodies which will fight the disease for the patient , it 's still very much trying to hold back the disease progress . |
| 13 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 14 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 15 | I smoke less — I 'm desperately trying to give up smoking . |
| 16 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 17 | Carla would curl up on his lap and hold her hands over her ears desperately trying to block out their arguing . |
| 18 | But you can take it from us , the Queen was incandescent with rage and at Balmoral right now every member of her family from Prince Philipdown is desperately trying to stay out of her way . |
| 19 | We are desperately trying to find out who has been ‘ taken ’ and who has gone into hiding . |
| 20 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 21 | Even now British American Tobacco is desperately trying to fight off the predatory raid of James Goldsmith , Rothschild et al . |
| 22 | We 'd be sitting or standing watching the traffic go by , Dawn alternately flapping about desperately trying to get away and perching on my glove letting me stroke and soothe her . |
| 23 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm … er … fine , ’ said Robert , desperately trying to work out how he might get close to Maisie , ‘ but I am … er … worried about the boys . ’ |
| 25 | An argument then develops , with Louis , always the mediator , desperately trying to bring about calm and reason . |
| 26 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 27 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 28 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 29 | just trying to sort out this business of this the offices that we 're being let in the Strand Theatre that er people are moving in this week and they 've got no authority to move you see . |
| 30 | I 'm just trying to sort out some papers here . |