Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] trying [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
| 2 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 3 | I seemed to be drifting from one thing to another , trying to please my parents and trying to do the opposite from Pat , to be different . |
| 4 | Or treating one-one function and trying to find the inverse , and it 's not . |
| 5 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 6 | It is no good sitting in Coventry and trying to run the thing by remote control . |
| 7 | And I 'd say I was down the docks last night trying to rob the life-rafts , getting the first aid kits and trying to get the Omnopon and all that , and I nearly got caught , ca n't you help us out ? |
| 8 | ( And as Lucy was shuffling tensely and waiting for someone to respond , Joe Lucas was in his hotel room and trying to prise the cap off a fresh bottle of painkillers that he 'd picked up , along with some disposable razors and a few other essentials , from a late-opening pharmacy on Piccadilly . |
| 9 | That piece of toast you grab in the morning while trying to tidy the kitchen and brush your hair at the same time . |
| 10 | However , such information is only of limited use when trying to assess the performance of the public sector . |
| 11 | They may also be of limited use when trying to judge the success of many plans . |
| 12 | This evidence indicates that mortality data are of little use when trying to establish the prevalence of the dementing illnesses as they are almost certainly a significant underestimate of the true prevalence of the condition . |
| 13 | It is certainly a better way of choosing food than trying to read the menu . |
| 14 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 15 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 16 | Mohammad Rafi , Vice-President inthe former Najibullah regime , was reportedly arrested on Sept. 21 at Kabul airport while trying to flee the country in disguise . |
| 17 | But the apogee of imaginative anti-Nazism comes in Let George Do It ( 1940 , To Hell with Hitler in US ) , when George Formby , who otherwise divides his time between playing his ukulele and trying to crack the code a bandleader is using to broadcast messages to the Germans , dreams a sequence in which he flies over Berlin in a Zeppelin , lands at a Nuremberg rally and challenges the Führer himself , ‘ You , Adolf , put a sock in it . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Hill added : ‘ We are taking this stage by stage and trying to find the truth . ’ |
| 19 | Others within the Democratic Party counselled caution , however , accusing Bush of seeking to renege upon his undertaking whilst trying to shift the blame for any new taxes upon the Democrat-controlled Congress . |