Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adds Lt Watts : ‘ What often made situations all the more tragic was the fact that these poor From here is single col for page 7 people were trying to carry on with their lives . |
| 2 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 3 | But I were trying to get through to her . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 5 | He wrinkled his nose at the smells , thinking that the cowardly little wretches were trying to keep out of his way . |
| 6 | Almost all of us were trying to catch up on our homework , although the tram was much too bumpy for anyone to write anything . |
| 7 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 8 | I was trying to catch up with you , but I could n't . ’ |
| 9 | And he was trying to get round to his rear end to lick . |
| 10 | Marco had worked his arms free and was trying to get up on his knees . |
| 11 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 12 | Former England opener Geoff Boycott chased and caught a thief who was trying to make off with his golf clubs and a holdall at King 's Cross station in London recently . |