Example sentences of "[was/were] try [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
| 2 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 3 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 4 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 5 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 6 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 7 | They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ? |
| 8 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 9 | One of the things I 'd like to know , erm , fairly on in the course is is your asked to bring along some thought , something you were trying to influence somebody about . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know which is worse , that you do n't give a damn about respecting your commitment to her , or that you did n't think it would matter to me that you were — were trying to lure me into bed while all the time , you knew that you and she — ’ |
| 11 | If you were trying to train one from scratch and made an error like that it could easily mess up an entire day 's work . |
| 12 | … why am I writing all this out as if I were trying to assimilate myself to her ? |
| 13 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 14 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 15 | Kevin and Marie and I were trying to organise them into tribes and wagon trains so we could do the film when Julie sauntered up . |
| 16 | Well this is why we were trying to relate it to districts . |
| 17 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 18 | He was trying to hold it to his chest . |
| 19 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 20 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 21 | The lift was small and Rain was trying to distance herself from Oliver without pressing up against Wickham . |
| 22 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 24 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 25 | I was trying to put myself into X. Ray 's head . |
| 26 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 27 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 28 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 29 | She was trying to open it with one hand , while the other held the bearskin to her breasts , when Guy reached down and retrieved her shift . |
| 30 | And I was trying to explain something to her in German . |