Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle knew that collaborators around the Vichy prime minister Pierre Laval were trying desperately to resuscitate the Third Republic as a way of saving their own skins and forestalling a Gaullist takeover . |
| 2 | Patristic Christology is subtle , for the fathers were trying rightly to express a complex issue . |
| 3 | Michael Stein was trying unsuccessfully to calm an irate customer who was arguing about his bill . |
| 4 | ‘ But if they 're given money for the food … ’ the Substitute was trying vainly to put a bouncing lighter to his cigar . |
| 5 | Benedicta was trying hard to keep a straight face . |
| 6 | I was trying hard to absorb the bizarre happenings of the day . |