Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I were trying to get through to her . |
| 2 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 3 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 4 | I was trying to catch up with you , but I could n't . ’ |
| 5 | I was trying to catch up on housework |
| 6 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 7 | She was trying to get out of that ! |
| 8 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |
| 9 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 11 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 12 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 13 | And he was trying to get round to his rear end to lick . |
| 14 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 15 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 16 | Steven dreams of driving his car swiftly and effortlessly over thrilling lanes and highways … not realizing how Saturday will come , no present bought for Pervert and Queen , will have to leap into car , 11.08 Saturday morning , claw through Saturday traffic to near place of work , double-park car , run into weathered antique shop , snatch slightly unsuitable rococo frame from shelf , pay with desperate ACCESS he was trying to cut down on , emerge , tear ticket from windscreen , drive recklessly home , fling frame at Claire , discover best shirt in fact dirty and get to wedding with three minutes to spare … |
| 17 | Henry wondered if his chum , the great young cellist , had taken untimely to bed because he was trying to keep out of Henry 's marriage , or perhaps because he was nursing loneliness . |
| 18 | Almost all of us were trying to catch up on our homework , although the tram was much too bumpy for anyone to write anything . |