Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People were trying to get out of carpark and away from the town and this man was still insisting he got his 20 pence from every driver . ’ |
| 2 | Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming . |
| 3 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 4 | Obviously old Jim was trying to muscle in on Sam . |
| 5 | I was trying to catch up on housework |
| 6 | They were n't doing anything — they were just being polite — but Nigel was slightly afraid that the artist was trying to get off with Eleanor . |
| 7 | 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 . |