Example sentences of "[subord] he [is] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he must work on his kicking in general , especially where he is trying to find touch . |
| 2 | The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ? |
| 3 | I heard Brad having a conversation again today about Ooh I do n't feel ye I heard him saying why do n't we feel very happy about this and not and not happy with the subjects and I do n't feel very happy about running the session so go up this way he 's never done the work you see so he 's trying to learn it from i instructions and things and a lot of the time you need to have actually done it to be able to talk about it |
| 4 | He sticks it on his head and gives a big grin , like he 's trying to cheer me up . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks like he 's trying to out-do her in her field while she moves into his . |
| 6 | From here , it looks more like he 's trying to stir up some shit that 's already been stirred up too much by the neo-Nazis . |
| 7 | And Murphy himself often looks edgy , as if he 's trying to button his lip ( he seems happiest with the funny improvised boy 's talk routines ) . |
| 8 | It 's a romantic notion I know — but to me , with his system idling yet the brain activity so intense , I think it 's as if he 's trying to come to a decision . ’ |
| 9 | Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig . |
| 10 | ‘ Tod Friendly , ’ Tod Friendly keeps grunting without opening his mouth , as if he 's trying to remember it , or learn it . |
| 11 | When Odilo has Herta on the bed , splayed and buckled , with her ankles on either side of the headboard , it 's as if he 's trying to kill something rather than create it . |
| 12 | If he 's trying to find you the cheapest |
| 13 | And I said he 's gon na do damage if he 's trying to get up at the door |
| 14 | His eyes are fixed on hers as if he is trying to outstare her . |
| 15 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 16 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 17 | And is n't that why he 's been sent there rather than anything else , cos he 's trying to see the effects of the new control and see if , you know |
| 18 | Dr Clare does not address any of these problems directly , but tells us a lot about his childhood , which seems to have been quite nice , unless he is trying to hide something shameful . |
| 19 | ‘ Bryan has a pedal board , but because he 's trying to concentrate on singing and leading the band he ca n't be standing there trying to switch his pedals all night , so I usually run them from the side . ’ |
| 20 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 21 | The sort of ghost everyone knows about is the sort who goes haunting because he 's trying to get a lifer to do something for him , like revenge his horrible murder , or discover the hidden treasure , or find a will that 's been lost . |
| 22 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 23 | It 's not long before he 's trying to explain the telepathic communities that will flourish after the apocalypse to me and offering this example : ‘ It 's like when you fancy someone , and you know you 're going to go with that person . |
| 24 | When he 's trying to impress you or your family , he may do all sorts of things he would n't dream of doing after the wedding . |
| 25 | ‘ You really must n't bother me too much , old love , must n't disturb the goose when he 's trying to lay the golden egg , y'know . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly this limpidity is not within Eliot 's reach even when he is trying to be limpid , as in ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ; , and of course the experience of a simple person enduring a commonplace and unavoidable sorrow — is such as Eliot could never manage , early or late . |
| 27 | No-one knows any longer when Morrissey is being sarcastic and when he is trying to awaken us to something . |
| 28 | The radio sketches that Galton and Simpson created for Tony Hancock in the mid-1950s are a back-street version of the same rueful joke : the hero , discomforted by every encounter , gets it wrong when he is trying hardest to get it right . |
| 29 | His voice , which sounds like a male version of Dietrich 's , trips over itself when he is trying to communicate one of his many enthusiasms . |
| 30 | Thomas and Sally meet on a drenched A1 as he is trying to hitch northwards . |