Example sentences of "[was/were] try [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
2 | This is what we , we were aiming for we were trying to make a town for the people . |
3 | ‘ I thought you were trying to find a cottage for Marcus , but Irina says you 're not . ’ |
4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) and I understood that the basis of the talks was to try to secure a replacement for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and to make arrangements to safeguard the administration of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom . |
5 | A few yards down the bar , an unshaven Ray Milland was trying to exchange a typewriter for a bottle . |
6 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |