Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald was trying to take over . |
| 2 | This week , prompted in fact by a carefully reasoned properly concerned letter from Bill , Mr Rose was trying to find out whether Marcus thought about going home , and if so , what he thought . |
| 3 | Like Franco , Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history . |
| 4 | Oliver was trying to find out , in very slow English , when they could tidy up the flat and leave Antibes . |
| 5 | ‘ Waterworth was on my left and Andrew was on my right and Waterworth was trying to carry on fighting . |
| 6 | All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand . |
| 7 | Albert was trying to work out how , much younger Percy was than he himself . |
| 8 | In one shot , Daine could be seen in the background while Rhonda was trying to scratch out the eyes of a competitor for his attentions , Arlene Dahl . |
| 9 | That was when France was trying to hold on to Vietnam . |
| 10 | Obviously old Jim was trying to muscle in on Sam . |
| 11 | While Sarah was trying to sort out the mess — they eventually married in May 1980 at St Mary 's church near Althorp — Diana was having fun . |
| 12 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 13 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |