Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 2 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 3 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 4 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 5 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 6 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 7 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 8 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 9 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |