Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the faces in the stalls were turned the wrong way , trying to see what the fuss was about in the back row . |
| 2 | I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember , his life , he 's trying to find what an iron looks like , he 's never ironed a hanky in his life . |
| 4 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 6 | One important lesson concerns the need to consider the whole child when trying to discover what a child understands or is capable of . |
| 7 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 8 | It turns out that trying to define what a group is is quite difficult a what distinguishes a group of people from a mob of people er a group of people queuing at a bus stop , are they a group well you do n't think so normally . |
| 9 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 10 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 11 | Erm we 've covered it I 've done it before I 'm just trying to remember what the answer was . |
| 12 | As a language user you may start from a position of ‘ innocent egotism ’ , whereby you assume that others are like you and share your assumptions , or you can start by trying to assume what the addressee 's terms of reference are and continue in a circular process of mutual discovery . |
| 13 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 14 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 15 | WITH a good deal of head-scratching , with a shuffle here and a waffle there , America 's diplomats are trying to decide what the country 's European policy should be . |
| 16 | In The Hidden Files , his fascinating contemplation of his life and his work , he confesses that writing Suarez almost cost him his sanity , and in trying to analyse what the black novel means to him he returns to it again and again , like a child rubbing a particularly vicious boil . |
| 17 | Charles was struck dumb trying to fathom what the man might possibly mean . |
| 18 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 19 | Now I just trying to think what the other the name of the other one was . |
| 20 | Er it would be some of the bodies I think oh er wait a minute I 'm trying to think what the casting were be used for there were other things besides locks you see I forget what they the , I know they used to do the castings and the brass castings it would be for the locks , for the locks yeah |
| 21 | If it were abandoned , the burden on local authorities of trying to collect what the Prime Minister described as a virtually uncollectable tax would be substantially lightened , and that would be of great benefit . |
| 22 | It really is quite difficult , you know , trying to visualize what the thing would like but er |