Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 2 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 3 | The new season was two days away and Alex Ferguson , a manager trying to compensate for a previous disappointing campaign , had spent £2.5m on two midfielders , Mike Phelan and Neil Webb . |
| 4 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 5 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 6 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 7 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 8 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |