Example sentences of "trying to do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 2 | I knew there was no sense in trying to do a better one . |
| 3 | wants to go full-time into erm groups and she 's trying to do a one hundred and one different things . |
| 4 | Well you do get aeriated though when you 're trying to do a new job do n't you ? |
| 5 | One must understand Mr Patten was saying that in the heat of the moment but it 's a very unfortunate description to make of anyone trying to do a reasonable job . |
| 6 | He 's got in trying to do a little bit of burglary you see . |
| 7 | This , this , you know , is saying something very , very simple , it 's telling you straight away , okay it 's , it is , it is quite nice to have the quote in there again as I say , if somebody , if somebody is trying to do a little advance story , to say , you could all , you could from there you could actually write something which , without having to go back and make a phone call . |
| 8 | He looked like a man trying to do a complicated piece of mental arithmetic . |
| 9 | No one starts out by trying to do a bad job but if neglected and not respected potential will be stifled and performance falter . |
| 10 | Trying to do the normal thing can be the cause of accidents with cable breaks and winch failures on smaller gliding sites . |
| 11 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
| 12 | The WRU was riven , by the league issue , even before the divisive South African centenary celebrations — which distracted Ryan , his players and the Welsh public from their main business , trying to do the impossible against the All Blacks . |
| 13 | It 's partly down to trying to do the best you can for your artists . |
| 14 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 15 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 16 | Paula Yates is positioned as the fluffy bimbo , and Muriel Gray is the one who stalked through the set being rather rude to the bands and deconstructing the whole female persona ; I think she 's trying to do the same now with the chat show . |
| 17 | ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing . |
| 18 | But the idea of trying to do the same was impossible for Midlander like me — the nearest reservoir was over 20 miles away and after a couple of circuits would soon have lost its charm . |
| 19 | America 's airlines will not welcome another foreign rival trying to do the same — especially a state-owned carrier . |
| 20 | Omri Serlin notes in his ’ FT Systems ’ newsletter that IBM is out to establish CICS as an industry standard , positioning it to compete with USL 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp Encina and NCR Corp 's Top End and clearly threatening USL which is trying to do the same for Tuxedo . |
| 21 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 22 | Such success for developing countries is not always the case , even in the same industry ; Bolivia has had a sorry experience in trying to do the same as its Eastern rivals , but has suffered from a critical lack of expertise . |
| 23 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 24 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 25 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 26 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 27 | and you 've got to try and get round them , oh god , there 's about six thousand trying to do the same thing . |
| 28 | You 're trying to do the same thing but whereas in feudal exploitation |
| 29 | I think that 's a very sensible idea actually rather than er trying to do the whole town . |