Example sentences of "he [was/were] trying [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 2 | I knew it was only a matter of time before people caught on to what he was trying to do back then ! |
| 3 | Hunter-Blair owed the paper much , and after MacQuillan 's death he was trying to hang on to his position . |
| 4 | She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms . |
| 5 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 6 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 7 | Even if he was trying to show off , I still respected him . ’ |
| 8 | He looked at me as though he was trying to work out which part of me he would take a bit out of . |
| 9 | Pansy looked at her as if he was trying to work out how to combine her with deuterium and to calculate the effects of the resulting explosion . |
| 10 | and erm he , he was trying to work out how , how to write the reply correctly . |
| 11 | And he was trying to get round to his rear end to lick . |
| 12 | Especially when he was trying to get off with her . |
| 13 | In his defence he was trying to get back onside , but Linighan was aware of this and shoved him , to keep him there . |
| 14 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 15 | So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in . |
| 16 | Steven dreams of driving his car swiftly and effortlessly over thrilling lanes and highways … not realizing how Saturday will come , no present bought for Pervert and Queen , will have to leap into car , 11.08 Saturday morning , claw through Saturday traffic to near place of work , double-park car , run into weathered antique shop , snatch slightly unsuitable rococo frame from shelf , pay with desperate ACCESS he was trying to cut down on , emerge , tear ticket from windscreen , drive recklessly home , fling frame at Claire , discover best shirt in fact dirty and get to wedding with three minutes to spare … |
| 17 | She realized with shock that he was trying to fight back tears . |
| 18 | Henry wondered if his chum , the great young cellist , had taken untimely to bed because he was trying to keep out of Henry 's marriage , or perhaps because he was nursing loneliness . |
| 19 | He was trying to summon back his bubbling feelings of well-being and brotherly love , but gradually everything seemed to combine to stifle them . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't even know he was trying to break in , ’ I added lamely . |
| 21 | He was trying to climb up a brick wall , but he 's got a bad leg . |
| 22 | Maybe he was trying to find out if he was gay . |
| 23 | She observed the way his foot twitched under the table with strange flicks , as though he was trying to shake off something stuck to the sole of his shoe . |
| 24 | It happened once while he was trying to make up his mind to do a very dangerous job in the last war . |