Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] trying [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 2 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 3 | Why did you lend him all that money ? ’ she demanded fiercely , as if somehow trying to put the blame on to him . |
| 4 | ‘ Fucking brain-ectomy coming up , Doctor fucking Halziel , ’ he said , still crying and still trying to get the magazine to fit into the gun . |
| 5 | It 's a question of trying to package the book properly , making sure the public know that it 's out , and also trying to widen the readership each time , find new outlets for the book . |
| 6 | But thieves almost put paid to his invalid car , by stealing the battery and then trying to smash the car when they could n't get it started . |
| 7 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 8 | Clearly , the regulated devote considerable time , effort , and money to lobbying and otherwise trying to influence the regulator . |
| 9 | This digression is prompted by the experience of watching the Prime Minister trying to horrid to Neil Kinnock twice a week and occasionally trying to put the boot in elsewhere to the Labour Party . |
| 10 | He has finished most Formula One battles limping heavily , wincing with excruciating pain — but bravely trying to hide the seriousness of it from his rivals . |