Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She remembered trying to light the gas at the villa with a flaming wax Vesta , which twisted and burnt her thumb . |
| 6 | Mick was trying to light the petrol stove . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Jack knew she was trying to banish the car from her mind . |
| 9 | It was a case of getting up late and trying to maek the day as short as possible . |
| 10 | I think you 're trying to over-simplify the matter . |
| 11 | Here , Carol is trying to recollect the date of the party she has just mentioned . |
| 12 | The evening 's entertainment concluded with yobbos trying to evade the patrol of hefty stewards to get to the pitch . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Trying to segment the speech signal into phonemes is in fact likely to be a very errorful process for the following reasons . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 20 | O'Hara was looking round the room , trying to see the imprint of Stella . |
| 21 | As I screwed up my eyes against the dazzle , trying to see the creature so that I might describe it to Crispin , it vanished . |
| 22 | He looked sideways at her ; saw how she opened her eyes , fighting against the fear she felt ; battling with it ; trying to see the beauty there in that desolate place . |
| 23 | Again we can appreciate the importance of trying to see the task from the child 's point of view . |
| 24 | And we do that by trying to see the world from the point of view of Africans . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been wondering — trying to see the place from your point of view . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , it did not feel too cold and Endill stood for a moment trying to see the end of it but it disappeared into darkness . |
| 27 | Hari stopped abruptly and peered into the darkness , trying to see the face of the man addressing her . |
| 28 | If a workshop is linked to a show we always recommend trying to see the show , preferably first , if at all possible . |
| 29 | Even in Kyrgyzstan , one of two republics trying to go the way of democracy and keep the fundamentalists at bay , the Slavs are packing their bags . |
| 30 | But they are also trying to include the stock live are n't they , in some cases ? |