Example sentences of "was try [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our job was to try to bring them together . ’ |
| 2 | He 's admitted twice telling lies to the police , but says his wife was trying to set him up and he did n't want detectives to believe her story . |
| 3 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 4 | He was jabbing at the man with the clenched fist of his other hand , and Gómez , taken by surprise , was trying to hold him off . |
| 5 | Oh that 's not to be , Sri Lanka are a hundred and thirty-eight for four and here 's Lawrence to pitched up and he drives outside the off stump , the ball goes through to Russell , low again , beaten back at the pace rehearses a shot outside the off stump , he was trying to hit it somewhere through extra cover . |
| 6 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 7 | McKim , a Wales youth player last season and new to some of the more unwelcome machinations of senior rugby , lost his temper so totally after a brush with the Cardiff prop Jeff Whitefoot that he even lashed out at Newport 's skipper , Glen George , who was trying to cool him down . |
| 8 | He was trying to turn it round and make it sound positive . |
| 9 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 10 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 11 | He was trying to scar her as much as possible . ’ |
| 12 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 13 | He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one . |
| 14 | She 'd been right , he was trying to pick her up , which was a pity , really , because she liked to dance . |
| 15 | All he could tell me was that the team had no sponsor but I felt he was trying to put something together . |
| 16 | I have told you , Rain , I was trying to put her somewhere safe and secret for her own safety . |
| 17 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 18 | But if anybody crossed him , or if he thought the embassy establishment was trying to put him down , he 'd stand on his desk and raise hell . |
| 19 | When the records came in his father joked that his son was trying to put him out of business . |
| 20 | Then I realized that she was trying to push him away . |
| 21 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 22 | Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move . |
| 23 | In the final days before they met , Mother 's face began to harden when she sat and watched Boy and O , as if she was trying to push them together by sheer force of will power . |
| 24 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 25 | Yeah , and I was trying to do it up . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought she was trying to marry you off . ’ |
| 27 | Gary Burn stepped in and said , ’ do n't do that mate ’ he was trying to calm him down . |
| 28 | He knew he was trying to calm himself down . |
| 29 | The girl was trying to fight him off , was kicking his shins vigorously , trying to hold her face away from his , and was giving vent to muffled shouts , which were , of necessity , growing feebler and feebler as her strength ran out . |
| 30 | Some of the press read into that that I was trying to stare him out ! |