Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] the right " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Marie concentrated hard , trying to find the right words to give some shape and order to the confusion in her head . |
| 2 | Automatically — the writer 's habit — I was trying to find the right word to describe the scene . |
| 3 | Bobbie goes into the house , trying to find the right words to tell Mother that Father has come home . |
| 4 | Tessa was already turning the tatter-edged yellow pages over , trying to find the right date , when Bob put his phone down . |
| 5 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
| 6 | Sorry , I 'm trying to find the right bit of paper . |
| 7 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 8 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 9 | Yes , 3Com is trying to solve the right problems , says Proteon , but no , it does n't believe that 3Com will ever make the technology a widely implemented standard . |
| 10 | Only I was trying to get the right money today , see so |
| 11 | Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion . |