Example sentences of "trying [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 2 | There was no point in trying to go to sleep again . |
| 3 | The least productive thing to do is to keep trying to go to sleep . |
| 4 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 5 | She kept her eyes closed , trying to go to sleep . |
| 6 | I 'd been trying to go to sleep . |
| 7 | You do n't know what it 's like , trying to go to sleep . |
| 8 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
| 9 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 10 | Well the stitches are pulling where they 're , where they 're trying to heal of course , they 're pulling . |
| 11 | With my guitar , I was trying to sound like Lightning Hopkins and John Lee Hooker and people like this , and we just thought … ‘ this sounds OK ’ , and it did n't sound too bad at the time . |
| 12 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp got a bloody nose when it went head-to-head with Novell Inc and challenged NetWare with LAN Manager , and what it failed to achieve with a full frontal attack , it is now trying to secure by stealth . |
| 14 | If , for example , the victim knew that the accused was trying to obtain by deception , but nevertheless gave him the item , the accused is not guilty . |
| 15 | If I started trying to come between husband and wife , and that is how it would be seen , I could hardly help anyone at all . |
| 16 | Those who took part in the last Challenge are now trying to adjust to life , and jobs , back on dry land . |
| 17 | Skinner was trying to talk about psychology as a science because a lot of psychology at the time was n't and if you ask pe I 'm sorry that my sort of talking 's coinciding with people 's conversations but er er will you try and finish it . |
| 18 | I 'm trying to talk to nanny . |
| 19 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 20 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 21 | Take care if rearranging the decor or bravely ( foolishly ? ) trying to feed by hand . |
| 22 | He 'd been in the penthouse flat since about nine that evening , trying to watch TV , trying to listen to music but with no success . |
| 23 | There are now many sociological studies of the disadvantages women face in particular situations , from problems in particular places of employment , to seeking health care , or trying to participate in party politics . |
| 24 | He added , ‘ Michael Crawford , gangling , gauche and trying to escape from life through Oriental mysticism , achieves some really hilarious effects with his alternating bouts of unworldly chatter and inexplicable rage . ’ |
| 25 | The other religious groups were Old Believers ( that is , Schismatics ) trying to escape from persecution in Russia . |
| 26 | Many young people who carry on the habit on their own , after first experimenting with friends , are trying to escape from unhappiness at home , perhaps because their parents are quarrelling . |
| 27 | They had shot and killed Chris Gueffroy , the last person to die trying to escape from East to West Germany , as he attempted to cross the border to West Berlin on Feb. 6 , 1989 . |
| 28 | There was no struggle , like trying to walk through water ; but she had a sense of floating , as if her body had become insubstantial , like an air bubble . |
| 29 | The game was adjourned after 63 moves , with Speelman trying to win with rook and bishop against rook and pawn . |
| 30 | I mean , if you , if you into , if you were trying to look into building or commercial and you had to send them a planning application for it , you 'd have to prove that building could support the weight . |