Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] he [be] trying " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 2 | Yes and there 's a bird on the roof and he was trying get up there |
| 3 | If they were on a joint engagement and he was trying to make an important speech , he found it irksome that the following day the papers were more exercised with the length of her hemline than his words . |
| 4 | This worried me and other colleagues because , at that time , we felt that non-educational criteria were being imposed on school work and he was trying to fill his theatre at a slack time of the year . |
| 5 | he 's about eight , he falls on the ground , he 's not really hurt , his legs are tangled up in his bike and he 's trying to get up . |
| 6 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 7 | But Don 's involvement goes still further , not only is he helping the orphans but he 's trying to regenerate agriculture in the region . |
| 8 | Derek had the life-line handle in his hand — his seatbelt was restraining him — he had his other hand on the door frame and he was trying to reach the dinghy with his right foot . |
| 9 | Well And then there 's there 's y er y he ca n't get in the house cos you 're in the way and he 's trying to push past and y we do n't know where the hell to go . |
| 10 | You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's |
| 11 | he kept going on and on and on and he said do you think it was an error of judgment and he was trying to get Kinnock to say yes and he said yes it was an error of judgment the way he , he 'd sort of said I think he must of said in the mid seventies , that if he got in power he 'd get rid of all nuclear weapons |
| 12 | He 's a developer in those parts and he 's trying to get his finger in the pie . ’ |
| 13 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |