Example sentences of "was try [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 2 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 3 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 4 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 5 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 6 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 7 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 8 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 9 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |