Example sentences of "[that] he [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him . |
| 2 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 3 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 4 | Even inset boards , where a child has to match a certain shape , e.g. a lorry to its silhouette , are difficult for the beginner who does n't always realise that he is trying to put it in upside-down . |
| 5 | In the ‘ rational ’ decision-making model , the policy-maker first specifies the objectives that he is trying to achieve , second musters all the evidence necessary for an analysis of alternative ways of achieving these objectives and , third , chooses the most cost-effective means of achieving these objectives . |
| 6 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 7 | The basic message that he is trying to get across is an anti-war message which is present in all of his poems but the more precise message varies slightly with each poem . |
| 8 | In early 1922 Eliot told Pound that he was trying to read Aristophanes , apparently on Pound 's recommendation . |
| 9 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 10 | THE Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke yesterday rejected claims that he was trying to break the ambulancemen 's strike when he told MPs he had decided the army would be mobilised to help to answer emergency calls in London . |
| 11 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 12 | I stared back blandly with the same expression that he was trying on me . |
| 13 | There were few gables , as Street thought that they were hardly compatible with the grand effect that he was trying to achieve . |
| 14 | Indeed , a couple of times she had complained that he was trying to adopt her . |
| 15 | His letter rather suggests that he was trying to protect the person who made the original mistake . |
| 16 | He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ? |
| 17 | He protested to Theo at one point that he was trying hard to keep the peace — but how hard ? |
| 18 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 19 | His next letter accused Wolfgang of ‘ fecklessness , thoughtlessness and laziness ’ , which his son was quick to rebut , pointing out that he was trying to obtain a permanent post at Mannheim . |
| 20 | He was a brave little fellow and one could see that he was trying not to be scared by the Gorgon who towered above him . |
| 21 | In 1100 , Geoffrey of Vendôme assured William IX of Aquitaine that he was trying to answer the summons to the ducal court , but that every time his messenger reached the appointed place , he found William had moved on . |
| 22 | The point was , though , that he was trying , with himself as much as with me , and that 's touching , you know . |
| 23 | While they were there , an elderly man came down the stairs from the upper floor ( with its second hand books and books of local interest ) , and started to wander around , absent-mindedly Clara could tell from a certain straining of attention on Walter 's part that he was trying to catch the old man 's eye , and eventually he succeeded in doing so ; the old man nodded and smiled , with a bare " minimum of recognition , and Walter said " Good morning , Mr Warbley . " |
| 24 | Over and behind , in a different line , Ramu 's head was feathered with electric-blue that he was trying unsuccessfully to tame into urbanity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He broke off and Julia knew that he was trying to decide how far to let his honesty take him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Suragai was hesitating , and Burun saw that he was trying to choose his words to avoid giving offence . |
| 29 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 30 | She frowned , thinking that he was trying to tell her something , but what ? |