Example sentences of "he [be] trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men with their backs to him were trying to force open the cash-register . |
| 2 | One problem that occupied him was trying to dissuade Hanns from joining the army : ‘ Do n't do anything so foolish … it seems a hopelessly idiotic and pointless idea , and I can not understand why you want to do this ? ’ |
| 3 | What had he been trying to tell her ? |
| 4 | How could he be trying to escape when he was already chained ? |
| 5 | The cryptic little comment sparked off a tiny glimmer of hope deep within her — could he be trying to tell her that she 'd proved distracting ? |
| 6 | Er the next bed to me and he he were trying to talk to me and I er he and he wanted one of my buttons of my tunic . |
| 7 | For , after all , he had done nothing to bring on such an astonishing reaction , for behaving as though he were trying to rape her … |
| 8 | Greg got up , blundered round the tiny bedroom , and then went to the bathroom and showered noisily , as if he were trying to knock sense into his head . |
| 9 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 10 | Tom 's head sank into his shoulders , as if he were trying to make himself invisible , but his eyes remained restlessly curious . |
| 11 | Ace thought the Doctor sounded as if he were trying to coax a dog to do a trick . |
| 12 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mister Johnny sat quiet and still as he always did when she talked , watching her mouth and moving his own as if he were trying to copy her . |
| 15 | Damian sat down slowly in his place , completely silenced by the rebuke , staring at Gawain as if he were trying to understand the thought-processes which had led up to it . |
| 16 | It was as if he were trying to read her thoughts . |
| 17 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 18 | He is trying to describe the way in which the world as finite is not self-sufficient . |
| 19 | What he is trying to describe , and to find terms to name , is what would later be called ‘ existential awareness ’ , an awareness which includes and involves ourselves by contrast with any more or less detached knowledge of facts and truths quite external to ourselves . |
| 20 | At home in Italy he is trying to form a ’ lay alliance ’ with the Liberals , another small middle-of-the-road party . |
| 21 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 22 | He is trying to use risk assessment and economics — grubby workman 's tools that most greens are too fastidious to touch — to redirect both the EPA 's priorities and its approach to regulation . |
| 23 | He is trying to force through an entirely new system of democratic election by exploiting an arithmetical vagary of our existing one . |
| 24 | The elegant constitutional structure he is trying to create could rest on shifting economic foundations . |
| 25 | Thomas and Sally meet on a drenched A1 as he is trying to hitch northwards . |
| 26 | Worse , all the details of that task have to be specified in detail by a programmer , who can be overwhelmed by the complexity of the data he is trying to manage . |
| 27 | Marking a child 's spelling errors should always be less important than reading with sympathy and understanding what he is trying to say . |
| 28 | Most of them also use personal experience as Owen uses traumatic experiences of his during the war , to act as a base to what he is trying to say and to help to get his message across . |
| 29 | Now he is trying to recapture his old swing having attempted a Faldo-type swing refit which has n't worked . |
| 30 | He knows his affair caused the split but instead of accepting responsibility he is trying to ease his guilt by upsetting you . |