Example sentences of "[conj] trying [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 2 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 3 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 4 | And I was holding myself back , tha tha , Paul was looking and trying to make me laugh ! |
| 5 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |