Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sceptical officers thought he was trying to pass himself off as motor racing 's world champ . |
| 2 | Onto another club trying to pull themselves out of the doldrums … |
| 3 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 4 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 5 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 6 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 7 | Shit , I 'm trying to talk myself out of it , it 's just when I see her … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll only need them for your school work , ’ her mother reassured her , also trying to talk herself out of her own dismay . |
| 9 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 10 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 11 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 12 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 13 | Q ) I was only half watching Question of Sport last night ( trying to psyche myself up for Wild Palms — you need your brain on full alert to make head or tail of it ) , but was that Bremner scoring against Celtic in the EC Semi ? |
| 14 | Claudia fought hard against her traitorous body that already acknowledged him as its master , trying to hold herself away from him . |
| 15 | ‘ No , Father , ’ Ellie replied , trying to manoeuvre herself away from the smell of stale whisky and nicotine . |
| 16 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
| 17 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 18 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 19 | They were … sort of … writhing around … struggling … trying to push themselves away from the wall . |
| 20 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |