Example sentences of "trying to use [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 2 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 3 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 4 | I have always thought that maybe I had damaged the transfer needle by trying to use it with the ribber bed on half pitch . |
| 5 | The debate over the classification of the duck-billed platypus — which lays eggs but also gives milk — arose out of this issue , with the serialists trying to use it as a link between the reptiles and the mammals . |
| 6 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe that is true , but I ca n't see how it will deter a side which has superior scrummaging from trying to use it in such a situation ’ , said Ken Rowlands , the WRU director of refereeing . |