Example sentences of "trying [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | totally catastrophic if you start trying to treat one as the other and this is |
| 2 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 3 | Immediately , Belinda was beside him , reaching up tenderly with one hand while trying to support him with the other . |
| 4 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 5 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 6 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 7 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |
| 8 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 9 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 10 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 11 | ‘ One needs to be very alert to go creeping round with a couple of bottles up one 's sleeve , trying to hide them in the coal-scuttle or under the sink . ’ |
| 12 | It was important , too , that we took time to understand the existing strengths of the Festival , while examining how we should be trying to position it in the future to maximise audiences . ’ |
| 13 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 14 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 15 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 16 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 17 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 18 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 19 | I 'm just trying to remember everybody in the same afternoon , to collect them all because of about six of them are being done around here |
| 20 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 21 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 22 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 23 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 24 | Nona looked about her with interest , trying to identify which of the young men in her vicinity could possibly be policemen . |
| 25 | ‘ We are still trying to organise something with the zoo but I have seen Emma and she is lovely . |
| 26 | It seemed that as mothers had usually hitherto had primary responsibility for child care , they were less likely than single fathers to neglect this function when trying to combine it with the role of breadwinner ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Behind me , Dennis had erected the punt-pole and was now drunkenly trying to lower it into the water . |
| 28 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 29 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 30 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |