Example sentences of "[be] trying [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe it drove onto the site just before the call to the fire brigade — and that 's what we 're trying to ascertain from the travellers . |
| 2 | I 'm trying to withdraw from the empirical self and erm return to the level of forms . |
| 3 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 4 | I am trying to tease from the right hon. Gentleman what he thinks is the meaning of the new clause that he invites the House to adopt . |
| 5 | ‘ We have only to put together in the right way what we know without adding anything , and the satisfaction we are trying to get from the explanation comes of itself . ’ |
| 6 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 7 | Ethiopia , now at peace , is trying to rebuild from the ravages of war . |
| 8 | ( Remember that the event horizon is the path in space-time of light that is trying to escape from the black hole , and nothing can travel faster than light . ) |
| 9 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 10 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 11 | I wondered if he was trying to hide from the Eladeldi , but he was just nosing for something somebody else had dropped . |