Example sentences of "trying to make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 2 | As Cameron surveyed the crowd , trying to make a rough count , he saw some women cracking stone bottles against their cudgels , stripping off their stockings , and packing them with shards and handfuls of gravel from the forecourt . |
| 3 | I 'm too busy trying to make a tape of someone mowing the lawn who is also trying to watch the Cup Final , who is trying to get the rest of the family to shut up . |
| 4 | I was trying to make a list of what he owed and how we might get out of this state , which I do n't think he ever got out of . |
| 5 | So he continued trying to make a living the way he wanted to . |
| 6 | The Kremlin 's first reaction to western reports was an attempt to say the West was trying to make a mountain out of a molehill . |
| 7 | He did admit afterwards that they had been carried away by trying to make a quick breakthrough and had bowled badly , but it still left an unpleasant taste . |
| 8 | All this time I was trying to make a little money by doing hack-work translations of French and German children 's stories . |
| 9 | When it was said to him , ‘ Try to look on God ’ , he answered , ‘ I was trying to make a little prayer , but my cough hindered me . ’ ’ |
| 10 | I 'm trying to make a gradual move from being Charlene from next door to being Kylie . |
| 11 | Janet Willcock accused the RUC of ‘ trying to make a sectarian event out of an occasion which was intended to symbolise the non-sectarian nature of the ideals of Connolly ’ . |
| 12 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 13 | He 'll be like an old boxer trying to make a comeback . |
| 14 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 15 | This way no valuable ground is lost to windward at the end of the turn and it ‘ shuts the door ’ on any one trying to make a furtive inside rounding . |
| 16 | So much for trying to make a science out of commonsense ! |
| 17 | I looked at the faces of the other soldiers to see if he was trying to make a fool of me . |
| 18 | As in other countries with severe economic problems , there are large numbers of people trying to make a living through informal work . |
| 19 | There are many kinds of difficulties confronting an organization which is trying to make a start on restructuring education , but without access to formal power . |
| 20 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 21 | Matthew ( 3.10 ) and Claire ( 3.6 ) are trying to make a tower the size of Claire . |
| 22 | Walter Friedmann describes the difficulties experienced by young people struggling to educate or better themselves , while coping with hostel life and trying to make a living : |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't blame them for trying to make a bit of cash , but it gets ridiculous when they insult you for refusing to pay for something you did n't want doing , ’ fumes Mel , 39 . |
| 24 | ‘ We spent a lot of time trying to make a guitar sound good . |
| 25 | I 'm trying to make a banana cake . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm just trying to make a banana cake . |
| 27 | That weekend , Koreans were marching under peace banners , handing out free sodas on Vermont Avenue , trying to make a fresh start in community relations . |
| 28 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 29 | This year Puma is trying to make a big impression on the running market . |
| 30 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |