Example sentences of "trying to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these " successful " sessions are the important ones , and if users ' expectations do not increase , it is probably not worth trying to do much more in the way of improving online catalogues . |
| 2 | I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home . |
| 3 | ‘ The thing I 've been trying to do all along is to create a very large-sounding rock record — orchestrated , in a way — combining that with my songwriting style , which is pretty eclectic , I suppose . |
| 4 | That 's what we 're trying to do all You know that 's that 's that 's just our job , that 's how we 're we 're looking at buildings . |
| 5 | That 's the kind of thing we are trying to do all the time . ’ |
| 6 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 7 | And I think there is scope for misunderstanding there , and I think that if those two basic things , if we could learn to do those better , and I say ‘ we ’ because I do n't think anyone has all the answers to these problems , that , that school-parent relationships would , would improve a lot more that way , by doing these basic things better , and being sensitive to the difficulties of , of communication , rather than by trying to do all kinds of new policy things and erect new formal committees of this and that kind . |
| 8 | If private enterprise in a capitalist society is not trying to do that , there is no point in private enterprise — nor , for that matter , in a capitalist society . |
| 9 | ‘ It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go , ’ he declares uncompromisingly . |
| 10 | It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go |
| 11 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody 's trying to do that , ’ said Derek . |
| 13 | I keep trying to do that — but none of them will stand for it . " |
| 14 | You know so that you are trying to do that . |
| 15 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 16 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 17 | I was trying to do that was a jigsaw puzzle |
| 18 | I do n't like the way she keeps trying to do that . |
| 19 | Karen 's been trying to do that . |
| 20 | And you find , can you imagine anybody trying to do that these days ? |
| 21 | Yeah I was just I was just trying to do that |
| 22 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 23 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 24 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 25 | You have to be very aware of the patient 's physical limitations in relation to his spasticity , in order to prevent him from trying to do more than he can , which would inevitably make his situation worse . |
| 26 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm trying to do both . ’ |
| 28 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 29 | Next carefully sow the seeds , trying to do this as evenly and thinly as you can .. |
| 30 | You might be trying to do this via their thoughts , beliefs , attitudes , feelings or by directly attempting to influence their behaviour . |