Example sentences of "was trying [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many concluded that he was trying to shift elsewhere the blame for the hugely unpopular currency confiscation , and they also noted the likely damage Pavlov 's comments would do to his government 's credibility in future dealings with foreign banks and companies , especially if the Soviet Union needed to reschedule its foreign debt in 1991 or 1992 , as many bankers feared . |
| 2 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly . |
| 3 | I was trying to talk quietly . |
| 4 | Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming . |
| 5 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 6 | Another civilian was trying to set up a camera and tripod to photograph the scene and everybody was trying to sidestep the vomit on the carpet . |
| 7 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 8 | Like Franco , Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history . |
| 9 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 10 | What I was trying to say earlier is that Gary Speed IS playing tomorrow . |
| 11 | Sean says that , ironically , the accident happened because she was trying to live down her reputation as a ‘ difficult actress ’ . |
| 12 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 13 | He had the casting vote , as chairmen do , and he voted to say that he thought opting out would be good for Banbury School , but of course he was the chairman of the parents group that was trying to opt out , so that was not greeted very well amongst some of us , I think . |
| 14 | ‘ Waterworth was on my left and Andrew was on my right and Waterworth was trying to carry on fighting . |
| 15 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 16 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 17 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |
| 18 | She shut her eyes , unsure if she was trying to blot out the unexpected hunger in his kiss , or opting for her ostrich trick again and trying to pretend this was n't happening to her . |
| 19 | Part of my mind was trying to point out that the facial expression was wholly unlike her , and she never called me Del unless she wanted something . |
| 20 | This , I think , was the point that was trying to point out , about the Scottish system and the French system , that they have this independent investigating magistrates structure , so that erm , the police do n't so much become involved in one side of the case . |
| 21 | He laughed when I told him our solicitor was trying to sort out Brian 's will and said , ‘ What has he got to leave ? ’ |
| 22 | While Sarah was trying to sort out the mess — they eventually married in May 1980 at St Mary 's church near Althorp — Diana was having fun . |
| 23 | Crows aim at the eyes and Pipkin , sensing this , had buried his head in a clump of rank grass and was trying to burrow farther in . |
| 24 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |
| 25 | He looked around the shop for Emmanuel , who was trying to pick up an elderly man in a smart business suit . |
| 26 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 27 | I was trying to pick up youngish artists who had had some recognition like Patrick Hughes . |
| 28 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 29 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 30 | Helen was trying to decide how much of Nicola 's resolve , how much of her negotiating power , proceeded from fear . |