Example sentences of "was trying [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if Doyle was trying to grasp the sheet . |
| 2 | In return I was trying to grasp the basics of Swedish , whose inflexions and vocabulary I found hard to manage . |
| 3 | He was trying to grasp the events going on around him . |
| 4 | She was trying to grasp the radically changed situation with which she must come to terms . |
| 5 | ‘ If Appin was trying to teach the poor elephant to speak German , ’ said Clovis , ‘ I 'm not surprised it killed him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 7 | Bernice was trying to describe the Nicaean woman to her diary . |
| 8 | Celia was trying to scrape the frost from the Escort 's windscreen . |
| 9 | Mr Cross also denied that Mr Bond was trying to sell the painting himself . |
| 10 | Further along , an apothecary was trying to sell the customers of such women a cure for the clap made out of boar 's grease , sulphur , bark and quicksilver , all thickened by heavy treacle . |
| 11 | He was trying to remember the route he had taken the morning de Craon 's men had stopped him . |
| 12 | I was trying to remember the name of that collar . |
| 13 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 14 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 15 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night that the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 16 | The idea was rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night that the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 17 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 18 | Thus , French High Commissioner Pignon was hoping for American assistance in replacing and repairing military equipment ; said he was prepared for US military aid to go direct to the Vietnam government ; but also , in order to deter a Chinese invasion of Tonkin , was trying to talk the US into sending warships , particularly aircraft-carriers , into Indo-Chinese waters . |
| 19 | And therefore it was wrong because the argument goes that liberalism and nationalism are the great triumphant er ideologies of the nineteenth century and the Vienna settlement 's not only wrong , but it was historically erm in a sense doomed because it was trying to oppose the growing erm unstoppable er ideologies of er erm of er of Europe . |
| 20 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 21 | In 1100 , Geoffrey of Vendôme assured William IX of Aquitaine that he was trying to answer the summons to the ducal court , but that every time his messenger reached the appointed place , he found William had moved on . |
| 22 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 23 | I was trying to live the real Masai life . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A man killed under the wheels of a concrete mixer died because he was trying to save the life of a colleague . |
| 27 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 28 | Fraser Digby was trying to save the day when he gave away a penalty … |
| 29 | I was trying to memorise the road . |
| 30 | Mick was trying to light the petrol stove . |