Example sentences of "[was/were] try [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 2 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 3 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 4 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 5 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |