Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 2 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 3 | The Croats are trying to carve out as much of central Bosnia as they can get . |
| 4 | USL and the exhibit 's manager , Interface Group , will both be trying to round up other interested firms . |
| 5 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 6 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 7 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 8 | The parents trying to carry on . |
| 9 | Adds Lt Watts : ‘ What often made situations all the more tragic was the fact that these poor From here is single col for page 7 people were trying to carry on with their lives . |
| 10 | ‘ Waterworth was on my left and Andrew was on my right and Waterworth was trying to carry on fighting . |
| 11 | In social research we should be trying to carry out objective research to find out the truth of the matter . |
| 12 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 13 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 14 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 16 | Whatever the wider influences the producers themselves were just experimenting , trying to cut costs and to standardize production , and trying to whip up some interest by injecting a little sensationalism into their films by sailing a little closer to the wind . |
| 17 | Caroline was furious , trying to slide out of it . |
| 18 | She could imagine the girl curled up in a cupboard , trying to breathe noiselessly , willing her heartbeat to be less loud . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , Jamie ended up talking to some woman , but I was too busy trying to breathe deeply and keep the far wall steady really to care . |
| 20 | The labs were already trying to plan how to deal with that . |
| 21 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 22 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 23 | Trying to see where this one goes that I wan na move |
| 24 | I 'm trying to see where |
| 25 | He said , you 're like a kid trying to see over a six-foot wall . |
| 26 | ‘ Then perhaps the battery does n't have enough electricity , ’ said Grimma helpfully , trying to see over their shoulders . |
| 27 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 28 | Not just out of polite attention , but trying to see how Gillian would turn out . |
| 29 | Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when . |
| 30 | But we should be trying to see how it simultaneously offends and appeals . |