Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To everyone 's surprise , the bodies of the tech and the scum warrior stayed in full view , soaring and bobbing on convection currents of superheated gases as if trying to swim away from the wall ; though the bodies were obviously changing in texture as they cooked . |
| 2 | Yesterday Acting Detective Inspector Colin Gibson , of Darlington CID , said the teenager suffered a slight cut to his face after trying to struggle away from the two . |
| 3 | Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold . |
| 4 | There is urgent need to determine the limits of production … if we are to avoid the danger of trying to extract more from the land than it is capable of yielding . |
| 5 | Trying to look positively at the situation , could I suggest that in future , passengers are advised/warned that they will need separate tickets if there is a possibility of them returning separately . |
| 6 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 7 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 8 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 9 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 10 | Because of the sole directorship , the Revenue is trying to ride roughshod through the facts of the case and turn it into a mini investigation . |
| 11 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're trying to get away from the rowdy image . |
| 13 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 14 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 15 | But after a while she became involved in a quarrel with them , and was trying to get away from the angry group , when Alec d'Urberville rode by . |
| 16 | He would play us a popular classical piece , explaining what the compose was trying to get across to the listener . |
| 17 | Ulysses opens with the horrifying story of the blinding of the one-eyed Cyclops , told with gusto , and goes on to recount the many other dangers Ulysses faced during his 10-year voyage on the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ , trying to get home after the siege of Troy . |
| 18 | She wanted to kneel down next to her friend but felt that she would be trying to get close to the untouchable . |
| 19 | trying to think only of the shore of my bed |
| 20 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Labs is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI Ltd division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment platform as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 21 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Laboratories Inc is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment system as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 22 | This means that those with more conventional tastes in hosiery ( and more substantial overheads ) are obliged to take ever-smaller profits while trying to stay ahead of the game and figure out what the next business-machine craze might turn out to be . |
| 23 | It emphasises the importance of trying to push ahead with the peace process that is now under way . |
| 24 | She waited impatiently to be cleared , trying to peer meanwhile through the doorway beyond the Customs hall where friends and relatives of the travellers were crowded , but she could see no sign of Jenny . |