Example sentences of "[adv] trying [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's only trying to make a great deal of money , ’ said Constance . |
| 2 | The fairy lights were on and a machine was belting out smoke two frail pure white eight year old coach men stumbled out onto stage desperately trying to heave a massive structure around the stage , containing one very beautiful princess who seemed very heavy indeed . |
| 3 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 4 | If you 're anything like me ( and with due apologies to the ladies ) you will have arrived home and found either your wife or husband desperately trying to shove a six foot sofa into a five foot ten inch space between a door and a wall . |
| 5 | This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee . |
| 6 | In the jungles of the most hostile planet in the Galaxy , two men are desperately trying to repair a small rocket ship . |
| 7 | They 've been to his little boy 's primary school , interviewed the teachers and headmistress and all the school friends and everything just trying to get a dirty story . |
| 8 | It is not un determined but over determined , and the ruling interests in the social formation take the lead in setting the predispositions which are always trying to constitute a received shape . |
| 9 | DEC , which will soon announce R4000 upgrades to all of its R3000-based platforms — existing users will be offered board swaps — is still trying to put a brave face on the ACE debacle , saying the ACE Hardware Abstraction Layer in Microsoft Corp NT will allow ACE applications to run on its Alpha RISC platforms . |
| 10 | Former BAe executive Richard Hooke is still trying to pursue a separate bid for the company and wants to meet BAe this week with his financial backers . |
| 11 | Police are still trying to trace a potential witness seen by a jogger on the canal towpath behind Mr Miles home . |
| 12 | Mr Duff is also trying to arange a European title fight for Wharton . |
| 13 | But the woman is also trying to sell a dozen letters and postcards which , she claims , Andrew sent her when he was away at sea . |
| 14 | A private firm is also trying to start a luxury train — the Occident Express , I suppose — but if it happens the fare will be over 1500 pounds . |
| 15 | It would be wonderful , no doubt , if modern children were captivated by an Edwardian , very English sequel to Peter Pan , designed perhaps in the style of Arthur Rackham , but Spielberg is unashamedly trying to create a modern movie that will appeal to all colours and nationalities . |
| 16 | Ms Li is now trying to find a foreign partner who will invest in the school . |
| 17 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 18 | ALTHOUGH the onlookers might find the sight entertaining , you wo n't get very far trying to tow a full-size power boat with a Reliant Robin . |
| 19 | Stewart made the mistake of moving too far across his stumps and then trying to flick a straight ball to leg , while Hick went third ball after lunch to a sloppy drive at Kapil Dev and an edge to second slip . |
| 20 | There are people in the scene who are at least trying to create a little awareness amongst others . |
| 21 | Egon Zehnder has a not dissimilar approach , but a more cautious and longer-term perspective , putting quality of people and of work above everything else and truly trying to build a worldwide firm with a recognisable cultural identity . |
| 22 | I am currently trying to confirm a suitable date . |
| 23 | Kylie thinks she 's Lolita , Morrissey 's currently trying to ignore a hideous truth dark enough to match that of Dorian Gray , and Bob Geldof was Jesus Christ before breakfast . |