Example sentences of "[was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adds Lt Watts : ‘ What often made situations all the more tragic was the fact that these poor From here is single col for page 7 people were trying to carry on with their lives . |
| 2 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 3 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 4 | They swarmed like lice over the camp , and there was a battle being waged at the boat which men were trying to push out of the shallows whilst others held off the beasts . |
| 5 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 6 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you were trying to get away from me . ’ |
| 8 | But I were trying to get through to her . |
| 9 | ‘ People were trying to get out of carpark and away from the town and this man was still insisting he got his 20 pence from every driver . ’ |
| 10 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 11 | I remember being in one time , with both ends in , like I were talking about , and we have n't got a road out , we Matter of fact we were trying to break through to another district . |
| 12 | He wrinkled his nose at the smells , thinking that the cowardly little wretches were trying to keep out of his way . |
| 13 | Almost all of us were trying to catch up on our homework , although the tram was much too bumpy for anyone to write anything . |
| 14 | Other older husbands and wives had adapted their work ( by changing jobs ) to help a son who was trying to set up in farming . |
| 15 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 16 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 17 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 18 | Obviously old Jim was trying to muscle in on Sam . |
| 19 | I was trying to catch up on housework |
| 20 | I was trying to catch up with you , but I could n't . ’ |
| 21 | She doubled up as matron , treating every illness , injury , headache or toothache with determined suspicion , certain in her own mind that the pupil was trying to get away with something . |
| 22 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 23 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 24 | I was trying to get away from percentages and I was trying not to pursue the thing any further . |
| 25 | What I was trying to get away from I do n't know . |
| 26 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 27 | And he was trying to get round to his rear end to lick . |
| 28 | Marco had worked his arms free and was trying to get up on his knees . |
| 29 | They were n't doing anything — they were just being polite — but Nigel was slightly afraid that the artist was trying to get off with Eleanor . |
| 30 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |