Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] trying [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TAKE That 's heart-throb Robbie Williams caught with his mouth full trying to break the record the number of cheese and fish paste sandwiches that can be eaten in an hour . |
| 2 | POLICE and fire service investigators were last night still trying to establish the cause of a farm fire at the weekend . |
| 3 | THE British Patent Office spent last week desperately trying to stop the publication of a series of advertisements encouraging people to patent their inventions . |
| 4 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 5 | Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity . |
| 6 | It will ensure that we do not waste time purely trying to show the Opposition 's strength in delaying tactics , which gets nobody anywhere . |
| 7 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |