Example sentences of "[be] trying [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sailors were trying to put up a small sail , but the wind blew it out of their hands , away across the sea into the night . |
| 2 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 3 | Erm Richard you were trying to break up a big lump of snow yesterday were n't you ? |
| 4 | The securities firms are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues . |
| 5 | They are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues . |
| 6 | But you can see the same ideological contours behind it , in that here are a body of professionals who are trying to shore up a crumbling system . |
| 7 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ The new government is trying to set up a new country but they have no natural resources and they are desperately short of everything . |
| 9 | If the father is trying to instil good table manners while the mother is arguing , ‘ What does it matter , so long as she eats ? ’ , or the mother is trying to set up a sensible bedtime routine while father says ‘ Another half-hour wo n't hurt ’ , mealtimes and bedtimes will soon turn into problem areas . |
| 10 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 11 | He looked around the shop for Emmanuel , who was trying to pick up an elderly man in a smart business suit . |