Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] trying [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It invariably ended with Uncle Titch pretending to get cross with the clown on stilts and chasing him along the street on his fat little legs and trying to kick him up the bum and falling over backwards . |
| 2 | Look at them closely before closing your eyes and trying to see them in your mind . |
| 3 | The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end . |
| 4 | More than seventy-five years later , we are still working out their implications and trying to combine them in a unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 5 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 6 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 7 | ‘ For stealing household goods and trying to sell them in the surrounding villages . ’ |
| 8 | They all took it for granted ; men hitting their wives and children , men raping their wives and trying to kill them . |
| 9 | The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them … |
| 10 | We 're just hearing what Stan 's been saying about the way the Tourist Boards are erm classifying hotels and trying to assist us , the consumer , I mean how do you view it ? |