Example sentences of "[conj] trying [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or trying to save the soul of some evil little sod who would slit your throat as quickly as look at you ! ’ |
| 2 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 3 | However , it is not unreasonable to argue that trying to meet the measurement standards of natural science is to inflict a crippling over-ambition on social research . |
| 4 | It was close enough , and simpler than trying to explain the truth … |
| 5 | I think the best conclusion would have happened if they 'd just let it happen , rather than trying to force the issue on April the nineteenth . |
| 6 | Rather than trying to tackle the gybe as a whole , break it down into smaller component parts and try to make each part smooth . |
| 7 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 8 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 9 | Throughout Man 's long association with the Horse , the most successful horsemen have been those who have used some degree of knowledge of psychology or understanding of the horse , rather than trying to dominate the horse with force . |
| 10 | It is certainly a better way of choosing food than trying to read the menu . |
| 11 | Ryker knelt beside her , shook her , rubbed her arms as if trying to restore the circulation . |
| 12 | He gestures at the building behind him , as if trying to distract the animal 's attention . |
| 13 | Individuals and small parties join together in the open water outside the kelp beds , where they swim up and down as if trying to get the courage to attempt the last lap . |
| 14 | In both cases , the pupils will enlarge more than normal , as if trying to increase the input of information from the exciting stimuli . |
| 15 | From that moment David took absolute control and while Rachel crawled back into the space and fitted the collar , immobilising Len as much as possible , he administered a pethidine injection , all the time talking and trying to reassure the patient . |
| 16 | It was a case of getting up late and trying to maek the day as short as possible . |
| 17 | First , you 've frantically found your seat , strapped yourself in with a metallic click of the belt and are sitting bolt upright and trying to remember the air crash fatality statistics when — ooh , thank you , sweeties in a basket from a nice person — there 's a touch of human contact in a high-tech , high-octane toothpaste tube . |
| 18 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 19 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 20 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 21 | But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’ |
| 22 | I seemed to be drifting from one thing to another , trying to please my parents and trying to do the opposite from Pat , to be different . |
| 23 | But before he could complete the sentence , he saw Tony Cashman , solid as a double-decker bus , loom into view behind Ruth , who was gesticulating and trying to explain the reason for the interruption . |
| 24 | It seemed to Joan that he was torn betwixt unburdening himself and trying to ignore the issue . |
| 25 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 26 | Worse , many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been created by anxiety in the first place , and trying to stop the habit increases the horse 's anxiety . |
| 27 | After 40 years of ‘ chasing mosquitoes ’ and trying to control the malaria they transmit , an eminent entomologist believes that recent policy changes by the World Health Organisation and the intervention of environmentalists have baulked the malariologists from their ultimate goal |
| 28 | From 1839 he was engaged in a campaign to improve the quality of seed available by preventing the adulteration then prevalent and trying to test the germination of selected samples . |
| 29 | Strange , thought Fergus , turning restlessly and trying to escape the light , strange that throughout all Court history and throughout all Court gossip ( and gossip at Tara had ever been lively ) , that no one has ever referred to Dierdriu 's child , to the heir to Tara who disappeared . |
| 30 | Or treating one-one function and trying to find the inverse , and it 's not . |