Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 2 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 3 | For even as he was being celebrated for standing up to China , Mr Patten was trying to transmit the message that there is a difference between trade and economics , on the one hand , and politics on the other . |
| 4 | ‘ If the banks do not pass on the whole of the cut in rates then that is a waste of the Government 's time in trying to stimulate the economy . ’ |
| 5 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 6 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 7 | It 's thought the fire was started by someone trying to light a fire in a disused chimney . |
| 8 | She remembered trying to light the gas at the villa with a flaming wax Vesta , which twisted and burnt her thumb . |
| 9 | Mick was trying to light the petrol stove . |
| 10 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 11 | Now Locke you 'll recall had articulated a concept of private property as a natural right , inherent in individuals independently of membership in a civil society and in doing that he was of course trying to mount a case against erm Filmer 's position . |
| 12 | In reply , Gorbachev in his Oct. 19 Supreme Soviet address lashed out at Yeltsin , accusing him of getting " carried away trying to mount a show of strength " by demanding creation of a radical coalition government . |
| 13 | In this context , Felicity ( Alice was still trying to banish the word ‘ squaw ’ from her mind ) Felicity gave off an impression of light and warmth , as if she had never presented herself as dark . |
| 14 | But Jack knew she was trying to banish the car from her mind . |
| 15 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |
| 16 | It was a case of getting up late and trying to maek the day as short as possible . |
| 17 | You 'll even stoop to trying to seduce a girl while she 's asleep . |
| 18 | I think you 're trying to over-simplify the matter . |
| 19 | Here , Carol is trying to recollect the date of the party she has just mentioned . |
| 20 | I was trying to conduct an interview , and now I 'm trying to explain to you that you 're not making it at all easy . |
| 21 | The evening 's entertainment concluded with yobbos trying to evade the patrol of hefty stewards to get to the pitch . |
| 22 | They were trying to tame the process that gives the hydrogen bomb its devastating power-the same process that ‘ fuels ’ the Sun and the stars . |
| 23 | Erm he , he then goes on basically erm to talk about spreading political propaganda which was obviously very important to his cause erm an and he was saying that basically , you know , suddenly with the rise of er peasant associations erm everyone would , would say down with imperialism , down with the warlords , down with the corrupt officials erm , you know , and that these , you know , basically he , he 's then highlighting the fact that these political slogans have , have found erm have found , you know you know er importance with the , with the young the middle aged an and the old but basically obviously he 's , he 's trying to target the school because that 's where he 's hoping where the re revolution 'll start . |
| 24 | Trying to segment the speech signal into phonemes is in fact likely to be a very errorful process for the following reasons . |
| 25 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 26 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 27 | ‘ So , I 'm trying to issue a kind of loud , clear piece of information saying that , by and large , most of the journalism in this country is well below the standard that it should be . |
| 28 | All day he searched , trying to see a prey he could take . |
| 29 | As I was floundering around trying to see a picture she mentioned that she was dreading a forthcoming holiday because of travel-sickness — the anticipatory fear would lead to headaches and frequent urination . |
| 30 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |