Example sentences of "trying [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritated Edmund Wilson about Chaplin 's more ambitious films of the 1920s was the inclusion of ‘ gags ’ and ‘ low comedy incidents ’ as if he were trying desperately to hang on to his old mass audience , the clear implication being that Chaplin had now become the property of a more sophisticated audience . |
| 2 | One is a track side scene : five white runners and two black limbering up , shrugging shoulders , stretching legs and trying desperately to loosen up in an intensifying ambience ; sitting on the grass some way away from the main group is a black guy awaiting his call to marks ; while the others shuffle about nervously , he remains casually sitting , seemingly unoccupied with the imminent race as he nonchalantly sharpens the spikes of his running shoes with a nail file . |
| 3 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 4 | The others were pretty and popular , I was trying desperately to fit in with them , but it was dreadful to have something that I was proud of , and happy with — my body — made fun of in that way , by my friends . |
| 5 | Folly fanned her anger like a flame , trying desperately to burn out the suspicions that crowded into her mind . |
| 6 | He stayed immobile , trying desperately to identify where he was and to recall how he had got there . |
| 7 | If you are trying desperately to cover up your body , this will reflect not only in the way you dress but how you move . |
| 8 | Drawing of a man ( NI reader type ) trying frantically to hold back a crowd ( of Third World Africans ) , like a policeman at a demo . |
| 9 | I am trying now to wind down that project in favour of others , and am asking those who have helped me to take upon themselves what I have been doing , and find homes for their old journals — in libraries , universities and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Leaning her head back against the sofa , she closed her eyes , trying consciously to tone down her wild agitation . |
| 11 | Weeping , she turned away as the prince , trying manfully to hold back his tears , was led away . |
| 12 | Erm , unfortunately lately she 's erm , stopped drinking because I think she had a drink problem , no she 's just being trying quite to cut down , no she 's being really good |
| 13 | He said : ‘ As usual , the Government and their fellow-travellers are trying hard to slither out of their own responsibility for it . |
| 14 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 15 | I barge through the crowd of 'orrible mums , snotty kids and prams that always litter up the gate , and rush across the road , Mrs Moggs , the crossing lady , trying hard to keep up with me on her fat little legs . |
| 16 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 17 | Certainly , a growing number of organisations are trying hard to achieve just that . |
| 18 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |