Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 4 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 8 | The Victoria and Albert Museum is still trying to disassociate itself from the ignominious failure of the exhibition of sporting trophies through the ages . |
| 9 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 10 | She made a stab at a brittle laugh , trying to fit herself to the image of one of his sophisticated London women — a Wanda or Melissa who would hardly be embarrassed by such an admission . |
| 11 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 12 | The baby had been very demanding lately , and after trying to divide herself between the shop and the child she felt drained of energy . |
| 13 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 14 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 15 | At that meeting the party changed its name , trying to distance itself from the word that connected it to communism . |
| 16 | They have an important part to play in providing care to those discharged after long stays in hospital and also in providing temporary homes and rehabilitation to those trying to re-establish themselves in the community . |
| 17 | The government-backed unions are trying to portray themselves as the true and uncompromising voice of the workers : ’ outflanking Solidarity to the left ’ , as one commentator put it . |
| 18 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 19 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 20 | So that morning I went to the College library and began trying to remind myself of the intricacies of French verbs . |
| 21 | For the moment , Simon is busy trying to familiarise himself with the mysteries babies bring into the home — such as nappies . |
| 22 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 23 | But she bore the pain stoically , trying to comfort herself with the thought that Luke was unaccustomed to failure with women . |