Example sentences of "was trying [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 2 | A few yards down the bar , an unshaven Ray Milland was trying to exchange a typewriter for a bottle . |
| 3 | The archer was trying to hit a balloon 30ft away in Aubenas , France . |
| 4 | I was trying make a dive and missed it |
| 5 | Sheikh was trying to jab a pencil in Mahmud 's eyes . |
| 6 | Officers also want to trace another man who was trying to hire a taxi in the area where the body was found . |
| 7 | At Comdex , PC Week was trying to stage a runoff among NT , UnixWare , Solaris , Next and SCO . |
| 8 | The silence and the stare were alarming , and faintly comic , as if he was trying to hypnotize a bird . |
| 9 | Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby . |
| 10 | Moreover , the approach was trying to create a science of international relations . |
| 11 | Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " . |
| 12 | He grinned at her , aware that she was trying to pick a fight so that she could avoid further discussion of the subject . |
| 13 | Corbett grabbed a groom who was trying to lead a horse to the stables at the far end of the bailey but the fool could not understand him and Corbett simply drew a blank look , followed by a shrug and muttered curses . |
| 14 | I guess I was trying to earn a couple of lowlife brownie points , so I could catch up with Steve and Paul 's criminal pedigree . |
| 15 | Armenia alleged that Azerbaijan was trying to open a corridor to the Azeri-populated Autonomous Region of Nakhichevan through Armenian territory . |
| 16 | He found Dougal in Celia 's little sitting room ; he was trying to persuade a shelf to lie flat on its brackets . |
| 17 | I was trying to solve a mystery , and you were my prime suspect . |
| 18 | Recoup , a pilot recycling company set up by the plastics industry , was paying local authorities £50–100 a tonne for plastic bottles and was trying to build a market for them . |
| 19 | I was trying to build a car . |
| 20 | Delves said he was trying to strike a deal with an American corporation to build a hotel in the mountains . |
| 21 | Jonathan ( 3.4 ) was trying to fit a milk bottle into a crate with no spaces . |
| 22 | The Socialist party leader , Laurent Fabius , said Mr Chirac 's call for Mr Mitterrand to quit showed that the RPR , which he called ‘ the party of arrogance ’ , was trying to seize a monopoly of power . |
| 23 | Geoffrey Onoufriou , defending , said Urben , of Portswood , Southampton , was trying to steal a pair of glasses because he could n't afford to buy them . |
| 24 | A sepoy here was trying to remove a silver fork from one of his lungs , another had received a piece of lightning-conductor in his kidneys . |
| 25 | Down the bar someone was trying to start a darts match despite there being a mass of people between them and the board . |
| 26 | Such warnings succeeded in bringing the King into the negotiations ; by 1914 the King was trying to secure a compromise settlement , in itself a major advance for an opposition . |
| 27 | Such gatherings were called wapenshaws and one test of skill for archers was trying to dislodge a model of a parrot , called a papingo , from the top of a high tree or tower . |
| 28 | And neither Hopkins , who had plenty of journalistic work , or Miles , who was running a bookshop , or Haynes , who was trying to run a theatre company , wanted to edit it , and probably could n't anyway . |
| 29 | Yes , he was trying to get a divorce but he could n't . |
| 30 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |