Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | … why am I writing all this out as if I were trying to assimilate myself to her ? |
| 2 | Well this is why we were trying to relate it to districts . |
| 3 | He was trying to hold it to his chest . |
| 4 | And I was trying to explain something to her in German . |
| 5 | But just as I was trying to explain it to her , they repeated the telephone number , so I rang them up . |
| 6 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 7 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 8 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |