Example sentences of "was trying [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , the tip of that persistent tongue was trying to penetrate into the puckered tightness of her bumhole . |
| 2 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 3 | None of this sat very well with a party which was trying to settle on the left . |
| 4 | Bellowing , the thing was trying to reach over the stair-rail with its other encrusted , decomposing claw . |
| 5 | I was trying to put off the evil moment . |
| 6 | ‘ I was trying to deal with the climate of the Fifties during which there was great disposition among Americans to trust their government , ’ says Heller now . |
| 7 | Eating spaghetti , Clare began to suspect that James would rather talk about a relationship than have one ; wolfing boeuf bourguignon , she wondered whether James was flaunting his insecurities in order to attract the maternal feelings he clearly believed nestled within every woman 's breast- and from which Clare was trying to escape for the evening . |
| 8 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 9 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |
| 10 | There was a slight flurry of falling snow , but the weather was good and a wintry moon was trying to break through the clouds . |
| 11 | It was as if something was trying to break into the room . |
| 12 | One morning when Sara was trying to concentrate on The Imitation of Christ , João came to her door . |
| 13 | Sometimes in the morning , the tideline was strewn with translucent green pearls : sea emeralds , the Béatois called them , dropped by Manjiku as a promise of more treasure to the women , the future mothers he was trying to lure into the waters , for these jewels only appeared overnight , and could not be fished from the sea by day . |
| 14 | I wondered if he was trying to hide from the Eladeldi , but he was just nosing for something somebody else had dropped . |
| 15 | ‘ There was a brief scuffle between a bouncer and a drunk who was trying to get into the club . |
| 16 | I went after him ; he was trying to get into the Land Rover . |
| 17 | As far as I can see , your name cropped up simply as an explanation for why Billy Tuckett was trying to get into the house in Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 18 | Caspar was trying to get at the dead magpie that Philip was still holding . |
| 19 | A bloke who was trying to get at the tomato purée gave him rather an odd look , but Quigley was not bothered . |
| 20 | She was trying to get over the death of her husband , Michael Whitney , from a heart attack . |
| 21 | Everything was trying to get to the back end of the craft — pencils , you pressed into your seat . |
| 22 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 23 | Only Leila noticed Roirbak 's quick glance upwards , as if he was trying to peer through the ceiling . |
| 24 | The actual term ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined by Paul Brainerd , the founder of Aldus , to describe what he was trying to achieve with the , then , newly created PageMaker program . |
| 25 | I know I was trying to think of the word as well , I thought now what is it ? |
| 26 | I was trying to think in the correct way about right and wrong as I travelled home last night . |
| 27 | Well I was trying to stick with the size as an expression of whether the concept is one that should be pursued , and whether that influences the pursuing of the concept , can we can we leave the , the number of settlements till , till later on ? |