Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He denies trying to kill her by piping car exhaust fumes into her bedroom . |
| 2 | 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 ) |
| 3 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 4 | Trying to divide it by four . |
| 5 | Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency . |
| 6 | I just did n't want her trying to run it by herself any more . |
| 7 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 8 | Or am I trying to take her by surprise ? |
| 9 | If the hostages were reasonably safe and reasonably well cared for , why jeopardize our policy and priorities in the Middle East by trying to rescue them by force ? |