Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 2 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 3 | Wrapp , in contrast , writes from the perspective of the chief executive trying to manage both the organization and his own task . |
| 4 | I think they 're trying to do exactly the opposite . ’ |
| 5 | There had been eighty men in the cell trying to sleep away the cold of the night . |
| 6 | To this day , investigators are still trying to piece together the evidence which will reveal precisely what went wrong . |
| 7 | Investigators are still trying to piece together the events leading up to the blast , which destroyed the ground floor of the house on the outskirts of Wigan . |
| 8 | The youth drew the pirogue up the grey sand and crept forward to the clearing , and stood , trying to piece together the disorder that he could dimly pick out in the darkness . |
| 9 | For those whose main interest lies only in the formalistic approach to physics , these results will have little impact , but to those who are interested in trying to understand further the implications of this non-locality there remain intriguing questions , which must be carefully examined in depth . |
| 10 | One must expect this and while we are trying to understand fully the development of dune shapes and dune systems , it is necessary that researchers should classify dunes on a descriptive basis . |
| 11 | Many concluded that he was trying to shift elsewhere the blame for the hugely unpopular currency confiscation , and they also noted the likely damage Pavlov 's comments would do to his government 's credibility in future dealings with foreign banks and companies , especially if the Soviet Union needed to reschedule its foreign debt in 1991 or 1992 , as many bankers feared . |
| 12 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 13 | There are ways of trying to manipulate even the sortes Biblicae , but he had meticulously and demonstratively avoided them . |
| 14 | I am trying to move forward the agreement with the Bank of Scotland and will keep you advised of progress . |
| 15 | clarification that that 's the er just the amendment relating to where you were trying to take away the rights of ward members to attend ? as you have taken away the rights of members on questions , comments er and other things |
| 16 | Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained . |
| 17 | He praised Mr Michael Heseltine , environment secretary , for trying to bring forward the target date for reduction of carbon monoxide emissions . |
| 18 | Alone in the room she had stripped naked and run herself a bath , trying to wash away the sweat and relax after her ordeal . |