Example sentences of "trying [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 2 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 3 | He began vaguely opening drawers and cupboards , trying to see out of the corner of his eye whether there were any more of Tessa 's belongings lying about the floor . |
| 4 | ‘ One — ’ he cocked a thumb ‘ — when you 're trying to creep out of a castle no one is asleep . |
| 5 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 6 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 7 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
| 8 | They seem to be trying to catch up with the West of the Fifties . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Who 's Isobel ? ’ asked Mr Stych , trying to catch up with the tale . |
| 10 | A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses . |
| 11 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |
| 12 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're trying to come up with a ‘ user 's guide ’ to explain the regulations . ’ |
| 14 | Now writers are trying to come up with a new story for Willis as rival studios race to cash in on the Die Hard formula . |
| 15 | I spent hours trying to come up with a brilliant argument that would demolish the ‘ no deals ’ policy in seconds and solve everything . |
| 16 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 17 | Even as she turned towards the staircase she was still trying to come up with a good reason for not sleeping in his bed , but when she reached the top step she turned with a resigned sigh towards his room , too bone weary to argue any more . |
| 18 | I really support the idea of trying to come up with a plan of action because quite frankly I find that London and England is just so full of talk shops . |
| 19 | She and her two companions worked half the night in trying to come up with an answer , but as Dino 's car was working perfectly they were forced to the conclusion that the problem did not lie in their department , even though this was fiercely disputed by the rest of the Carlisle Flint team . |
| 20 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 21 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 22 | There were these two men there , talking , and one was saying there was trouble at Serenity , some problem about a ship trying to come down without an Eladeldi registration . |
| 23 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 24 | ‘ Would n't call that huge , ’ said Gedanken trying to squint up at the Sun . |
| 25 | THIS RECORD is the sound of a band trying to sneak out of the house without us noticing . |
| 26 | He also earned the nickname of the ‘ Red Caliph ’ by trying to give back to the Muslims a grand old mosque which the Catholic church had converted into a monastery 500 years ago . |
| 27 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 28 | Peru is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president , Alan Garcia . |
| 29 | The loose scree is very difficult ground for anyone trying to climb back to the path . |
| 30 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |