Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [adv] trying [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HUNDRED years ago , Gladstone celebrated his 80th birthday vainly trying to get himself and the Liberals back into power . |
| 2 | POLICE and fire service investigators were last night still trying to establish the cause of a farm fire at the weekend . |
| 3 | The three-storey building partly collapsed and surveyors were last night still trying to make it safe . |
| 4 | THE British Patent Office spent last week desperately trying to stop the publication of a series of advertisements encouraging people to patent their inventions . |
| 5 | It is probably churlish to contrast that with those who spent $15 billion last autumn vainly trying to prop up the pound and who remain in post at Threadneedle Street and 11 Downing Street . |