Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve other works by Matisse were offered — all trying to cash in on the much-hyped exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art — but only ‘ La plage rouge ’ , an estate picture at Sotheby 's soared , selling to a European collector at $1.25 million . |
| 2 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 3 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 4 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 5 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 6 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 7 | Were there any other rival boatmen , people trying to get in on the scene ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 10 | There may also be some junior males trying to muscle in on the dominant male 's kingdom . |
| 11 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |