Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The tackle should be compatible with the size of fish you hope to catch and the type of water you are trying to pull them from . |
| 4 | He ignored her completely , seizing hold of Finn 's pyjama jacket and trying to pull it from his back . |
| 5 | I am often secretive about what I eat , trying to hide it from my friends and family . |
| 6 | We 've bailed each other out and bolstered each other up , we know without asking , so it would have been pointless trying to hide it from her when I first discovered the lumps eighteen months ago . |
| 7 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 8 | I 'm up all night for nights and you do n't thank me , you act as if I 'm trying to exclude you from something . |
| 9 | Lachlan was still snarling and kicking when they uncovered him , and they nearly broke his fingers trying to unfasten them from Farquhar 's neck . |
| 10 | Mike Lynch , of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , said whale watchers were posing a risk to the animals — and placing themselves in danger — by trying to track them from boats . |
| 11 | The shock seared through his arm and he grabbed at the bracelet as though trying to tear it from his wrist . |
| 12 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 13 | He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about , trying to wrest it from Angela 's grasp . |
| 14 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to keep uneconomic pits open by trying to protect them from competition from imported coal ? |
| 16 | ‘ Forget about Papa and trying to protect me from the truth . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 18 | She 's trying to protect you from your destiny , which is to be a half-caste in England . |
| 19 | ‘ And if you have any intention of trying to keep her from me , I warn you , I wo n't stand for it ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Your father 's been trying to keep it from you . |
| 21 | More often than not the gravel is piled up against the front glass of the tank as though the fish are trying to keep you from prying into their nest . |
| 22 | I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it . |
| 23 | Built on the economic foundations of Keynesian economics and the social policy prescriptions of the Beveridge Report , the accord bridged the " reluctant collectivists " in the Conservative party ( George and Wilding 1976 ) , concerned with the survival and prosperity of capitalism , and the Fabian socialists in the Labour party trying to transform it from within . |
| 24 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 25 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 26 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 27 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
| 28 | I heard Brad having a conversation again today about Ooh I do n't feel ye I heard him saying why do n't we feel very happy about this and not and not happy with the subjects and I do n't feel very happy about running the session so go up this way he 's never done the work you see so he 's trying to learn it from i instructions and things and a lot of the time you need to have actually done it to be able to talk about it |
| 29 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 30 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |