Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] he [be] try " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 2 | There was a glitter in his eyes , and Rostov realised that he was trying to manoeuvre Burun into a situation where he would be either hurt or embarrassed . |
| 3 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 4 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 5 | Suragai was hesitating , and Burun saw that he was trying to choose his words to avoid giving offence . |
| 6 | He broke off and Julia knew that he was trying to decide how far to let his honesty take him . |
| 7 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 8 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 9 | Many concluded that he was trying to shift elsewhere the blame for the hugely unpopular currency confiscation , and they also noted the likely damage Pavlov 's comments would do to his government 's credibility in future dealings with foreign banks and companies , especially if the Soviet Union needed to reschedule its foreign debt in 1991 or 1992 , as many bankers feared . |