Example sentences of "[was/were] try [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 2 | The discontent with Rome had at last resulted in rebellions of slaves and of the lower classes , indirectly or even directly supported by those who at the two opposite corners of the Roman Empire were trying to defend their own independence , the Spanish tribes and Mithridates , king of Pontus . |
| 3 | Cos they were trying to fill their quota |
| 4 | Nature was a scene of constant struggle in which species were trying to extend their territory — a message emphasized by Darwin , but also by earlier writers such as de Candolle . |
| 5 | It was difficult to tell if those who had already risen were trying to help their fellows , or if those still recumbent were actually pulling the feistier ones back down , into the grave . |
| 6 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 7 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you remember when we wanted to get Gawain into Almeira Road school , and we could n't , because all the middle-class parents in s.w.23 were trying to get their kids into Almeira Road , and we live just over the zoning boundary ? |
| 9 | Loud cries of surprise from the hall made them run out of the cloakroom , where they were trying to find their coats and berets . |
| 10 | Great Warriors did n't want to attract too much attention to themselves when they were trying to think their way out of their penalty period in the ultimate war . |
| 11 | We have n't finished the process of elimination , but there was hardly anybody in the club in the afternoon except the residents and a few servants , and why the servants should try to blow up someone who was trying to improve their conditions is beyond me . ’ |
| 12 | Two of the captives , Lawrence Jenco and Benjamin Weir , were clergymen ( Jenco a Catholic priest , Weir a Presbyterian minister ) ; Terry Waite , a lay advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury , was trying to organize their release until he himself was kidnapped in 1987 . |
| 13 | Everybody was trying to do their job |
| 14 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 15 | Thornton was trying to hijack their project — the baby they had nursed to its first hesitant steps . |
| 16 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |