Example sentences of "[was/were] try [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success . |
| 2 | David Redden , the senior vice president at Sotheby 's who arranged the loan said that Sotheby 's approached the society with the idea of giving ‘ them the breathing space they so desperately needed while they were trying to determine what they were going to do next for themselves … with the hope that other institutions will join in ’ . |
| 3 | Oh yes , do you know , I was trying to remember what it was you wanted from that place over in Homesdale , you , you know where I mean do n't you ? |
| 4 | Algernon was trying to judge what danger , if any , he was in . |
| 5 | I also think he probably thought that it might help to ease the tension erm in Northern Ireland , whether it did or not I leave as an open debate and I do n't think there was just a single motive for President Clinton 's decision , but the one I was trying to demonstrate which was hit straight away was there was a domestic element , a des domestic political element in the decision . |
| 6 | James , meanwhile , was trying to predict what number he would get by adding the squares of two consecutive numbers in the sequence . |
| 7 | I was trying to ask what was so specific about the period of 16 months . |
| 8 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 9 | She eyed him , and he guessed that she was trying to decide what to say . |
| 10 | She was trying to report what Thérèse told her and she got it wrong . |
| 11 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 12 | ‘ He was trying to make what was already there work and we believe he has done a reasonable job in the circumstances . ’ |