Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In developing a critique of scientism ( which Habermas regards Knowledge and Human Interests to be ) he is not rejecting the epistemological validity of the nomological sciences or the hermeneutic sciences but is trying to orient them in relation to the critical sciences . |
| 2 | Trying to uproot itself into each escaping screech , |
| 3 | totally catastrophic if you start trying to treat one as the other and this is |
| 4 | It has since emerged he sent the letters from a York Post Office on that day before trying to gas himself in his car and take an overdose over the weekend . |
| 5 | The golden glow faded as Daak stumbled through it , almost falling over Ace but staggering on , suddenly aware of the circling dart , trying to swat it with his fists as it closed in … |
| 6 | In fact I even found myself trying to diagnose it like an illness , analysing it in terms of location , sensation , modalities , concomitants . ’ |
| 7 | Wind whipped at Duvall 's hair and the lapels of his greatcoat as he squinted out into the rain-slashed darkness , trying to see what in hell had happened . |
| 8 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 9 | Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind . |
| 10 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 11 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're trying to kill me with cholesterol and all that E rubbish , ’ he said and stormed out . |
| 13 | He denies trying to kill her by piping car exhaust fumes into her bedroom . |
| 14 | The world number two said : ‘ I 've had a very busy early season , playing in China , Dubai and Belgium , so I 'm just trying to refresh myself before this tournament . |
| 15 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 16 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |
| 17 | supplementing the teacher 's expertise with that of the group ( instead of the group and consultant trying to supplant it by showing they can handle things better ) |
| 18 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 19 | She was suffering dreadfully from morning sickness , she was haunted by Camilla Parker-Bowles and she was desperately trying to accommodate herself to her new position and new family . |
| 20 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 21 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
| 22 | Erm I 'm trying to find somebody about getting this put right . |
| 23 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 24 | But faced with the dilemma of what would be best for her four young children in the meantime Nikki , from Mountmichael Park , had considered trying to find someone to temporarily look after them . |
| 25 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Still trying to find someone from Spidex ? ’ |
| 27 | Fucking useless nowadays trying to find anything in these books . |
| 28 | I 've been trying to find you for ages . ’ |
| 29 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 30 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |