Example sentences of "[was/were] try [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to try to see a top specimen of every breed at Crufts you would have to attend on all four days and walk a good couple of miles ! |
| 2 | They were trying to earn a decent living as human beings . |
| 3 | A few enthusiasts within the midst of the crowd were trying to dance the Eightsome Reel , which in the circumstances was a little like trying to stage a boxing match in a telephone box ; not totally impossible , just pointless . |
| 4 | OFFICIALS last night were trying to stop a ball-tampering scandal souring India 's ‘ Friendship Tour ’ of South Africa . |
| 5 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |
| 6 | Clark and Fraser were trying to control a new set of television nabobs with priorities quite unlike those of the forty-year-old BBC , whose task was to ‘ inform , educate and entertain ’ , in that order . |
| 7 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 8 | An immediate offensive might have given victory in Scotland and enabled him to march into England , where Thomas Forster and the Earl of Derwentwater were trying to raise the northern shires on behalf of the Jacobites . |
| 9 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 10 | It was a bare room without a carpet , and in it , he and the Adjutant were trying to conceal the real terror they were feeling . |
| 11 | These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife . |
| 12 | There was some speculation that the kidnap groups in Lebanon were trying to add the Lebanese Hamadei brothers to the list of those who might included in an arrangement for a staged release of Western , Israeli and Palestinian hostages and prisoners . |
| 13 | After all , hinges do n't last for ever and it 's not as if they were trying to cram a bulky parcel through a small space , just a slim package . |
| 14 | Richard Morris , Paul Rayner and Kevin Greenhill , from High Wycombe , Bucks , were trying to win the Chief Scout Award badge when the rain forced them to shelter in a tiny tent they were carrying . |
| 15 | His next tack was to try to catch the ABS system out . |
| 16 | ‘ If Appin was trying to teach the poor elephant to speak German , ’ said Clovis , ‘ I 'm not surprised it killed him . ’ |
| 17 | Bernice was trying to describe the Nicaean woman to her diary . |
| 18 | I was trying to live the real Masai life . ’ |
| 19 | It would spoil the flow to point out that everybody has been at it since the start of recorded time , or that much of the world has been fighting keenly away in these recent decades , while Western Europe was trying to invent the political structures that would make sure its nations never fight each other again . |
| 20 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 21 | Ellen would doubtless tell me that the senator was trying to turn an electoral liability into an advantage , meaning that if he could parade his cured children in front of the electorate he could then pose as both a noble parent and as an expert on drugs , but I preferred to ignore that imagined cynicism , choosing a different reservation . |
| 22 | Joan was smiling , she had her hand on Susan 's curly , three-year-old head , and Susan herself was trying to force a menacing kiss on little Sam . |
| 23 | ‘ He accuses my lord of injuring one of his knights who was trying to recapture a runaway slave , and says he wo n't budge until he receives compensation . |
| 24 | I was trying to mend a broken door in the floor of the stage . |
| 25 | Judges in contempt cases can be judges in their own cause ; it is doubtful whether juries would have convicted Granada television for refusing to name its " mole " within British Steel , or solicitor Harriet Harman for giving a journalist access to documents read out in open court , or " The Independent " for publishing excerpts from " Spycatcher " at a time when the Government was trying to stop the British public from reading a book on open sale in other countries . |
| 26 | Apparently she knew enough to tell other people not to worry , but that might mean no more than that she was trying to put a brave face on things . |
| 27 | The 1991 budget [ see above ] , with its emphasis on public sector expenditure , clearly showed that the government was trying to ease the social problems caused by the demands of the IMF and World Bank aid packages [ see p. 37820 ] . |
| 28 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 29 | I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill . |
| 30 | Dexter guessed immediately that the man was trying to extract an exclusive story on the investigation into the murder of Nicola Sharpe . |