Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] trying [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am trying to account for the paradox of the sameness of so many accounts , in language , of the strange , the exotic , the new . |
| 2 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 3 | So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ? |
| 4 | If you are trying to save for some future expenditure , be it retirement , school fees or just that new car or holiday that would be so nice , then finding the right plan matters . |
| 5 | ‘ It will greatly assist what we are trying to aim for in the development of the game in all quarters of the county . ’ |
| 6 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 7 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 8 | It changes every year so we go to these conference and we fight on our declaration of intent , on pensions , pensions reviews , that 's er reviewing a pension what we 're trying to get for the government of the day to review the pensions every six months instead of at the present every year . |
| 9 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 10 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 11 | we 're talking about three six are n't you at the end of the day that 's what they 're trying to apply for . |
| 12 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 13 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 14 | Ask what it is trying to do for you , so that you can understand and forgive . |
| 15 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 16 | I think he was trying to call for help . |
| 17 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |