Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 2 | When the records came in his father joked that his son was trying to put him out of business . |
| 3 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 4 | Geoffrey was trying to drag him back by holding on to his overcoat . |
| 5 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 6 | ‘ Graham Taylor was trying to get us through to the semi-finals in the best way he knows — rightly or wrongly . |
| 7 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 8 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 9 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 10 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 11 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |