Example sentences of "we [was/were] trying [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Calcavecchia : " We were trying to restore a bit of pride after yesterday afternoon . |
| 2 | Did you notice , Sir Edmund , when we were trying to force the door of the church , how Rachel and her mother hurried along shouting for Damien through the window ? |
| 3 | She said that we were trying to push the penis down women 's throats . ’ |
| 4 | We were trying to put a finger on what it is that humans and moles and earthworms and airliners and watches have in common with each other , but not with blancmange , or Mont Blanc , or the moon . |
| 5 | Well we were trying to remember the lines to that and she came in and for about half an hour she gave a rendition . |
| 6 | Hell , the first time we met you were bringing in some by-hand-of-bearer letter telling us we were trying to depose the monarchy devalue the pound and make the natives play baseball instead of cricket . |
| 7 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 8 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 9 | We were trying to equip the pupils for life . |
| 10 | This is what we , we were aiming for we were trying to make a town for the people . |
| 11 | We were trying to make the tree stand erect in Fred 's pot and not seeing quite how it was to be done . |
| 12 | Honestly , you 'd have thought we were trying to poison the children . |
| 13 | ‘ We were trying to keep the Maharajah in for a while . |
| 14 | We were trying to decipher the remainder , when a man came out . |