Example sentences of "of try [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 4 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 5 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 6 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 7 | In spite of trying to help them on the voyage , Margery was left alone at Dover . |