Example sentences of "[v-ing] desperately [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians , fighting desperately to hold back the German invaders , called on the Allies to set up a " second front " in Western Europe by invading France . |
| 2 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 3 | What irritated Edmund Wilson about Chaplin 's more ambitious films of the 1920s was the inclusion of ‘ gags ’ and ‘ low comedy incidents ’ as if he were trying desperately to hang on to his old mass audience , the clear implication being that Chaplin had now become the property of a more sophisticated audience . |
| 4 | One is a track side scene : five white runners and two black limbering up , shrugging shoulders , stretching legs and trying desperately to loosen up in an intensifying ambience ; sitting on the grass some way away from the main group is a black guy awaiting his call to marks ; while the others shuffle about nervously , he remains casually sitting , seemingly unoccupied with the imminent race as he nonchalantly sharpens the spikes of his running shoes with a nail file . |
| 5 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 6 | The others were pretty and popular , I was trying desperately to fit in with them , but it was dreadful to have something that I was proud of , and happy with — my body — made fun of in that way , by my friends . |
| 7 | Folly fanned her anger like a flame , trying desperately to burn out the suspicions that crowded into her mind . |
| 8 | He stayed immobile , trying desperately to identify where he was and to recall how he had got there . |
| 9 | If you are trying desperately to cover up your body , this will reflect not only in the way you dress but how you move . |