Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] trying [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 2 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 3 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 4 | I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company . |
| 5 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |