Example sentences of "and trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor was shuffling and trying to untie the knots which fastened his arms behind his back . |
| 2 | FAMILIES are ignoring wage-freezes and trying to spend their way out of the slump . |
| 3 | The Ford driver was furious and trying to regain his place , a very dangerous manoeuvre . |
| 4 | But also the administration of and trying to rectify the |
| 5 | Hartman presents himself in a complicated relationship with Derrida : engaging with him , succumbing to him , imitating him , and trying to resist him . |
| 6 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 7 | She was just pushing down the lid and trying to close the catches with fumbling fingers when the door swung open . |
| 8 | Facing up to your own problems , and trying to resolve them , may be the best thing you could do for your child . |
| 9 | At the top of the backswing , deliberately trying to push from the inside of the right foot , and trying to force the hips to drive forward , will lead to a great deal of confusion in your golf swing . |
| 10 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 11 | After this initial time of taking in the news and trying to deal with its implications comes a time of absorbing the message given and trying to act on it . |
| 12 | Merleau-ponty had accused the existentialist Sartre of denying history and trying to hold everything together instead ‘ only by the hopeless heroism of the I ’ . |
| 13 | Not content with damning Churchill for causing the Dardanelles disaster , attempting to stifle Bolshevism at birth , returning to the Gold Standard and trying to hold on to India , John Charmley faults him for opposing appeasement . |
| 14 | He worked for hours , taking each name and trying to draw up evidence to prove that person the murderer . |
| 15 | And I myself , as er your course leader has indicated , I was on a course here myself some four weeks ago listening to the same subject , doing the physical exercises etcetera etcetera and listening and trying to take in , I wo n't say I did , trying to take in all the different aspects that will affect us in our er retirement years . |
| 16 | I stared at Gav from my bed , blinking and trying to take in this torrent of exponentially catastrophic information . |
| 17 | erm when he was asked about and stood over his shoulder and trying to take mental notes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind . |
| 20 | But some develop a more intricate picture , incorporating psycho-analytic mechanisms like projection , introjection and identification , and trying to see individual socialization in a broader frame . |
| 21 | We can certainly make some progress towards doing so by peeling away the gender-drama from the conflicts of ideals in which it has often figured , and trying to see those conflicts in sex-neutral terms . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , shut up , Bob , ’ said Dyson , peering into the engine and trying to see what it was he had touched . |
| 23 | There is a difference between placing yourself ( with your own experience and motivation ) ill the other person 's shoes and trying to see what his view is ( with his experience and motivations ) . |
| 24 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 25 | I mean , I would say the overseeing of that , and trying to improve your stock results erm , as a key result area , is the active part of it , but the actual everyday doing those checks , you can delegate that down . |
| 26 | Mr Hedley , 43 , in a statement read to the jury trying Paul Magee , 42 , and Michael O'Brien , 32 , who deny murdering Mr Goodman and trying to murder three other policemen last June , described what happened next . |
| 27 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 28 | When they got there , Maria was sitting on the piano stool in the parlour , picking out a song on the keys and trying to sing along with her halting one finger accompaniment , ‘ Jol-ly Go-od Luck to the Gi-rl Who Lo-ves a Sol-dier ’ . |
| 29 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
| 30 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |