Example sentences of "be trying [verb] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may think this an impossible request , ’ I said , ‘ but I 'm trying to trace a man called Smith . |
| 2 | DETECTIVES hunting a robber who sprayed a builder and his wife with CS gas are trying to trace a man seen in the area just before the raid . |
| 3 | Police are trying to identify a man who 's body was discovered in a barn destroyed by fire . |
| 4 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 5 | A CASE in which the family of a dead taxi driver is trying to have a man branded as his killer must be heard in Scotland 's highest civil court , five appeal judges ruled yesterday . |