Example sentences of "[adv] trying [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're obviously trying to attract the gilded youth of London . ’ |
| 3 | Then common sense and anger got the better of her and she firmed her mouth and concentrated on gently trying to wriggle the key free . |
| 4 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 5 | He sat back in his seat , his knowing eyes never leaving her , and she took a deep breath , desperately trying to steady the sudden rush of adrenalin charging round her body . |
| 6 | The soldiers had moved closer to the aeroplane , desperately trying to fight the flying demons . |
| 7 | I 'm not listening to anything I 'm just trying to sort the bloody thing out . |
| 8 | ‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them . |
| 9 | Now , if I do n't go to this phone , what would that look like , it would n't be just dialling , would it , she lied , I 'm just trying to compare the two , because they are quite different . |
| 10 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
| 11 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) , for example , ( although they are generally trying to demonstrate the increasing symmetry of domestic relationships ) show that married men spent some ten hours per week on domestic tasks , compared with 23 hours for full-time and 35 hours for part-time employed women . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're already trying to heal the long rift . |
| 13 | Dot preferred Mrs Hollidaye 's way of talking , always trying to see the good side of things . |
| 14 | ‘ Because has n't history proved that the English are always trying to do the Irish down ? ’ |
| 15 | Because you 're always trying to get the better of me . |
| 16 | Still trying to regain the imposing form he had displayed in the past days at Celtic and West Ham , there was a strong suspicion that McAvennie was past his prime . |
| 17 | The unionists are still trying to replace the Anglo-Irish Agreement with a devolutionary plan that is too wishy-washy for the SDLP and Dublin . |
| 18 | More likely , China is still trying to reconcile the irreconcilable : Marxism with a market economy , central control with the reality of powerful politicians in the provinces . |
| 19 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 20 | Police are still trying to trace the out-of-work actress , Yasmin Gibson , 34 , on Spain 's Costa Del Sol but say there is no indication as to when she will return home . |
| 21 | He is still trying to sail the same course but the boat is just sliding sideways across the water . |
| 22 | ‘ Fifty-fifty does n't seem all that fair to me , ’ said Charlie , still trying to get the upper hand . |
| 23 | Put another way , people are usually trying to gain the maximum return for the minimum effort , in settlement siting as in much else . |
| 24 | Mail order computer retailer and manufacturer Chipboards Plc has called in the receivers , Robson Rhodes , which are now trying to sell the combined or separate businesses and assets of the group as a going concern : the company comprises a Chipboards division , which sells clone personal computers , upgrades and peripherals by mail order and has a turnover of £8m ; and a Chipset division , which manufactures high-end clone personal computers such as file servers , Unix machines and workstations for computer-aided design and generates £3m in revenues ; Chipboards was set up in 1987 , is based in Bisley , near Woking , Surrey , and claims to have a customer base of 20,000 . |
| 25 | Based on the MLT results , the Well Evaluation group is now trying to minimise the lower layer 's formation damage and it focuses on the reactivation of the lower portion of the upper layer 's production capability . |
| 26 | I remember only too well trying to beat the smaller fish in a French lake by using three 18 mm diameter pop-ups on the air . |
| 27 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 28 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 29 | ‘ If we are going to stay here , in New York , for any length of time then I 'm going to need to buy some clothes , ’ she told him , grimly trying to ignore the sick feeling in her stomach . |
| 30 | To understand brain and behaviour means rejecting that dichotomy and instead trying to interpret the intertwined dialectic of specificity and plasticity . |