Moses is trying to wriggle out of his mission by highlighting possible contingencies and his own inadequacy. |
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They were tired of ruffians trying to loot the place for finger-licking baked potato skins. |
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We are trying to avoid the word policy, that commits us down a certain course of action. |
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She turned and ran as fast as she could, trying all the while to control the stream of tears coursing down her cheeks. |
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But I think they are fooling themselves as much as they are trying to fool you. |
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Of course, being the stupid fool macho man that I am, I was trying to do it alone! |
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Police said a man suspected of trying to attack Burrell in the court building's foyer was arrested. |
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Besieging communist China and trying to overthrow the government there, however, is a fool's errand and a recipe for world war. |
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Some people are seeking to use the issue as a football, rather than trying to find genuine solutions to the obvious difficulties. |
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Deutsche Bank has been trying without success to get a firm foothold in the market. |
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Sirka staggered around, trying to make her way out of the hallway and into the family room, when she suddenly lost her footing. |
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I watched her leave trying to make sure she left no footmarks or disturb the dirt in any way. |
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Willow was spending time with the coven of witches in Devon, trying to put her life back together. |
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On the way to geography I heard footsteps behind me and it sounded as if someone was trying to sneak up on me. |
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He's obviously intrigued but trying hard not to sound too keen in case the other fogeys at the paper send him to Coventry. |
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We have been trying to give them an idea of how devastating it is for the communities affected. |
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I ran my hands over my body trying to remove the layer of dirt that may have covered me since my last shower. |
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Jim took two quick steps backwards, trying to cover Diana with the gun and keep from losing sight of Harry. |
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Ironically, Dailly had been trying to shepherd the ball clear as he covered behind Elliott. |
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This is the preferred enlisted headgear, but we are trying to get away from some of the less accurately made forage caps out there. |
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I'd rather see a law forbidding the practice than trying to sort out ways to allow data sharing without my knowledge. |
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After the first chorus, you feel as if you are listening to a glam cover band trying to get their van unstuck from a pool of molasses. |
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She was apparently on a vain quest to appeal to the man that he once was, trying to beg his soft, weak, cowardly side for mercy. |
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Animals often devour the vulnerable mucous membranes of dead animals, instead of trying to burrow through the cowhide. |
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He hid his face in the cowl of his coat, trying not to pay attention to the people staring at him. |
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I'm going to spend the next few months trying my damnedest to tiptoe through the mine fields of other people's political passions. |
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The company is trying to reverse years of progress on rangeland restoration to serve a handful of cowmen. |
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All the bulls get excited, everybody gets trampled, and we cowpokes spend the next few days trying to gather in the strays. |
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He was trying to bring the announcement, the pronunciation of honesty and truth to American and world foreign policy. |
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Rather than trying to hug the seafloor, crablike robots could punt along, relaxing and saving the precious energy in their batteries. |
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Just a small forest of black crosses, each labelled with the name of one of the 80 people who died trying to get out there. |
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to martyr sport as the cradle for world diplomacy. |
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She ran into the dense wood trying to hide but he was always there, forever catching up to her. |
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This is a security concern, as officials are trying to improve on easily forged laminated ID cards. |
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I was rushing to get to class-and trying to cram for my next period's geography quiz. |
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Often blood was drawn but without malice, just an accident, like an actor forgetting his lines because he's trying too hard to remember. |
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Now Umist is trying to bridge the learning gap by introducing the crammer course. |
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If the Democrats preselect this dud, they can forget about trying to regain credibility. |
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I walked slowly, flexing my cramped and abused muscles, trying to restore circulation, and taking in my surroundings at the same time. |
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Cautiously, he moved forward, craning his head to the side trying to see if anyone was crouching behind the bush. |
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The men were like tourists, craning their necks and trying to see the firefighters raging up and down the riverbanks. |
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He was told that workmen had been trying to move the tank using a forklift truck when it had fallen and split, spilling diesel. |
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At this point, I'm trying to decide if this is a crank caller or if he's for real. |
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He crashed his motorcycle into the side of a car that swerved in front of him as he was trying to pass on a road north of Hamburg. |
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He's pretty set on everyone wearing a tartan, so plain formalwear is out, unless, again, I'm trying to make a statement. |
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Hunger cravings are very powerful, and trying to resist them is a constant struggle. |
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Sweeping shots and crazy angles seem to add to the tense, built-up vibe the movie is trying to get across. |
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Sally paced back and forth, trying to absorb all of the new sights and smells at once. |
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Unfortunately, trying to catch forty winks before last night's debate between candidates Kerry and Bush was not a good idea. |
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Even without trying you're able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas. |
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United, to their credit, never stopped trying but they struggled to create real openings. |
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And her pastor, probably quite creditably, is trying to give her a way to do that. |
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We have been trying to forward documents both to the post office box and to the residential addresses given. |
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The next day Annabelle crept slowly around the castle, trying to avoid going to see Adrian at all. |
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I turned my pocket cards over and declared a King-high flush, trying to sound matter-of-fact about it, not too triumphant. |
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If that isn't enough there are other creepy-crawly threats that jump around trying to kill you, like spiders and fleas. |
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We are trying to develop a Jamaican sign language system for English and Jamaican Creole. |
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She leaned over the sides of the crib, trying to see something in the clear blue eyes of the infant. |
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What exactly this means is hard to imagine, rather like trying to picture a four-dimensional cube. |
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I get enjoyment from playing alongside lads who are trying to become professional cricketers. |
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The fact that dog attacks are occurring in the first place tells us that we may be trying to hard too domesticate our four-legged friends. |
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Today I'm frantically trying to find a plasterer as the one we had booked has cried off. |
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The crime wave was finally ended after he was caught on video trying to use a credit card he had stolen during one of the burglaries. |
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However, he must beware the pitfalls of trying to be too smart-alecky, too ready with the cringe-making quip. |
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We provide emergency clothing and food, and we're trying to open a crisis center and disciple home here in Hollywood. |
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So it is not surprising that she should be in full cry, trying to defend her position. |
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The continent's leaders have been crisscrossing the region trying to cool things off. |
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The youngest children get fractious and older family members get irritable trying to keep the peace. |
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All I was trying to give him was, ahem, a contribution to a critique of his political economy. |
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We're trying to keep out dust and moisture and critters such as insects or birds that might build a nest. |
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Back in Texas's room, she and Katie were trying to piece together the fragments of the night before. |
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Criminals of all hues from drug dealers to crooked business people are busy trying to convert hoarded pounds. |
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She made frantic, wild attempts at my neck and face, trying to turn my head to the side. |
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He runs through the jungle trying frantically to lose the savage hunters as they sing their terrifying pig-hunting song. |
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They were obviously trying to play down the gay content and cross over to straight audiences. |
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Thanks again for trying to get these frauds to prove and justify their ridiculous claims. |
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Hotels and restaurants are being urged to beware, after businesses were targeted by two different fraudsters trying to con them out of cash. |
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Police arrested three men for allegedly fraudulently trying to obtain money from an online bank. |
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Twenty people have been charged with trying to obtain fraudulent licences to drive tanker trucks. |
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She decided to weave her way through the fray, trying to avoid battles, but one knight insisted on aiding her. |
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The damage is compounded by the loss of attention from frazzled parents trying to rebuild their lives. |
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He beat on the man's muscular arm, trying to pull himself free as the man opened up the door. |
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Cheska quickly gripped her fathers hands trying to pull herself free of his grip, but to no avail. |
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They might have a different view if I was trying free climbing, for example. |
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It is trying to make your body look as weird or robotic as possible, but in a free-flowing way. |
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Some were in the process of trying to get their schooling by correspondence or had already started in an alternative school. |
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They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation. |
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She had the crowbar in both hands and was trying to lever apart a wide slat at the point where it was joined to the bottom of the crate. |
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Whether he's trying to set a record for the longest French kiss or getting the pulp beat out of him, his life is never far from exciting. |
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Now they're trying to work out something where it won't happen with any kind of frequency. |
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Meanwhile I've been trying out cruelty-free products that should give your skin and face a real glow. |
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If it wasn't for friction between the tyres and the road, driving a car would be like trying to drive on an ice rink. |
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Anyway, wrestling with that was a lot like trying to figure out how to cut out this bag so it did that slouchy crumply thing I wanted. |
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Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys. |
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I sign myself in, I am searched and I then join a line-up in a yard while a frisky dog sniffs me in case I am trying to smuggle in drugs. |
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The other day two Fritzes appeared walking unarmed along the top of their trench trying to fraternise. |
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Hairdressers for a long time have been trying to perfect curling hair without damaging or frizzing the ends. |
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Harder still is trying to turn your frizzy, curly hair into a smooth, straight and silky looking hairdo. |
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O'Brian took a barb in the back as she dove at a group of unsuspecting froggers while trying to scatter them out of harm's way. |
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A civil population on the move can be absolute havoc for a defending army trying to get its forces to the war front. |
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We are scared and we are shaking and we are trying to put up a brave front, but we have no frame of reference for something like this. |
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Had he not been trying to keep a brave front, Damien may have quailed beneath the glare his leader. |
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The front-of-house staff kept trying to hurry the man, but he would not be rushed. |
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Based on chemical and genetic data, I am trying to find out, whether there are different host-races in the cuckoo wasp. |
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I sense unhappy sponsors beating on the doors, and producers cudgeling their brains trying to figure out what has happened. |
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I gave up trying to think of anything to say that didn't sound like I was reading it off a cue card. |
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If you are trying to make your eyes look bigger go for a white liner and just say no to frosted shadow. |
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I waited, heart pounding hard, trying to keep the frosty professional exterior. |
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Frowning, I glanced around the room trying to find the culprit responsible for interrupting my reading. |
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These people are frustrated, they are hungry, they're trying to get to higher ground. |
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I understand the frustration of the police, who are trying to prevent a possible tragedy. |
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You are trying to diet and someone offers you a luscious rich slice of chocolate fudge cake. |
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Customers fueled the fire by trying to put out the flames with their drinks. |
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Jones has been trying to run a curate's egg in an industry that has become increasingly specialised. |
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He also stated that the government was trying to produce a single regulation to curb smuggling across the country. |
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Once the ports are fulled up, any one trying to log on will get rejected with username and password. |
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He is currently trying to design and build a vehicle to land on the surface of the planet Mercury. |
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They seemed to be trying to one-up each other, even letting out full-throated snarls when they played drop shots. |
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I was trying to bowl a low full toss and I was watching the batsman's movement as well. |
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I fumbled with my keys and cell phone, trying to start the car and call Kelli simultaneously. |
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They're meant to be intuitive type of commands, not where you're not fumbling around trying to figure out what to say. |
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Still holding on to both the ledge and the beam, she moved one foot up and fumbled around trying to find a stepping ledge to use. |
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I have been trying to think of how I want to decorate my blog come holiday time, and I have finally come up with a cute idea. |
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As a result, the co-op faces continuous cut-throat competition while trying to maintain a high return for its members. |
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I squeezed my fingers trying to get the tingly feeling of hitting my funny bone. |
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Ha ha, watch the funny man poke the actors with a fishing pole while they're trying to film! |
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Just had a bit of breakfast and I'm now trying to get the fur off my tongue while writing this. |
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If anything, the courage was in the cutting room, and trying to make a film that was singular. |
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Self-diagnosis is dodgy at best and when it comes to trying to determine whether you are a cyberchondriac, it's bit of a Catch-22 situation. |
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This is a town, not a village, and, furthermore, a town which people are fast trying to make into a place to be entertained. |
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And given the amount of attacks and breaches that occur worldwide, who isn't trying to avoid cyberattacks or cyberthefts? |
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Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun. |
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Most days at least one gets itself stuck in the house, usually trying valiantly but ultimately futilely to fly through one of our closed windows. |
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And I did spend a lot of time futilely trying to talk to the FBI press office about the flight. |
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A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before. |
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They left Andromache and stopped on the island of the Cyclopes, trying to avoid Scylla and Charybdis. |
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That's nothing compared to the time she burned down the kitchen trying to cook a pot roast. |
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I stared at my feet and fidgeted, trying to pass the time as quickly as possible. |
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Little appetite has the New Deal for trying conclusions with political champions. |
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Perhaps it was as well for the Pope that he died before trying conclusions with that tough and capable Norman. |
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At the time she was trying to fit a new inner tube into her bike tyre, she'd obviously had a puncture. |
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Whenever she is able to keep her hysterics in check, it sounds as if she's trying to present herself as innocently doe-eyed as possible. |
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Zoe screeched and pinwheeled her arms as if trying to drive away a horde of mosquitoes, knocking his own arm down. |
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A few pioneers like Alfred Stieglitz were trying to establish photography as a fine art. |
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At present in Singida the Pallotine Fathers are trying to promote the pioneers association. |
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And they couldn't understand either why anyone would be trying to tax their brains with such a meaningless inquisition. |
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Siena College was sparked by noting this belief among their students to conduct a poll of 354 historians to rank the most trying times. |
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An absolute star, he glittered on stage while the party's pipsqueaks huddled around trying to catch some rays of reflected glory. |
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Some have accused Stoiber of deliberately trying to sabotage Merkel in a fit of pique at her rapid rise. |
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Kenneth also suggests trying thin-wall electrical conduit for the same purpose. |
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The final score does scant justice to the efforts of the players who never stopped trying despite fighting a losing battle for much of the game. |
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We are trying to create a place of contemplation and peace, but it feels like fighting a losing battle. |
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A colorful bird had stepped out of the forest, and was flapping its wings and turning around, as if trying to chase its tail. |
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Worse yet, we play prophets, trying to predict what might or might not be going on in the minds of complex men and what might happen as a result. |
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I've spent a lot of time over the past few months trying to figure you out. |
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We told her that she might not want to talk to us because she might go crazy trying to figure us out. |
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Basically, they're trying to figure you out and see if you run like prey or stand your ground. |
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So there is no point at all in carrying them out insincerely, or, for example, trying to cheat on the fasting in Ramadan. |
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Lopez tries to find Dell, but ends up trying to insinuating himself into Dell's family and replace him. |
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While trying to blend in at Chrysler, Zetsche is slowly insinuating himself into Detroit's clubby community. |
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He was determined to go after hitters rather than trying to make the perfect pitch. |
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Fortunately, many documentary makers of all generations have been insistently trying to fill in the gaps. |
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They trying to influence the debate but there are so many other bodies pitching in with their own comments. |
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So we'll be left with the sort of people who show off on stage at hypnosis gigs acting up in a confined space and trying to root each other. |
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I protested, trying to make my way out of the confines of the restricting hospital sheets. |
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These are trying times for the sheet music business, which has been increasingly chipped away at by illegal photocopying and online file sharing. |
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Poor Karl, who wears a pitiful wig and returns Lizzie's kindness by trying to protect her from daddy, endures endless humiliations. |
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The average income can be pitifully low, with some families trying to survive on tiny pensions. |
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They are trying to shut the lovely Filipina up because she is defending America's reputation for honour and decency! |
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Her husband, after incurring losses trying to run a business, is now employed in a private firm for a pittance. |
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Police were on duty at the Shell forecourt in York to prevent any private motorists trying to fill up. |
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Quickly roasted over a campfire, these made a very satisfying and splendid filling meal to end an otherwise trying and long day. |
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Since I'm trying to institute a policy of transparency here, I have something else to reveal. |
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By that he meant trying to establish institutions of democratic government and civil society. |
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The institutional Buddhists, as I've described, they were trying to show the State how they could serve the State's interest. |
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She was institutionalized after I found out who she was and what she was trying to do to us. |
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She was congaing with the kids, trying to get her friends to join in the fun and she conga'd all over the room with those kids. |
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He is also accused of trying to sell specimens that belonged to the university and plagiarizing the work of colleagues. |
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What I have been trying to do is define a congruity or community of interest between farmers and conservationists who are not farmers. |
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Plus, it's just plain exhausting trying to say productive, generous, and constructive things all the time. |
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We were trying to run but we couldn't breathe or see, I don't know how I found my way to the hatch. |
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Other writers on the centre left say that it is no longer a name to conjure with when trying to persuade their readers of anything at all. |
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Always ask your child's doctor before trying any type of alternative medicine. |
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You're trying to appeal to his finer feelings, and people who write for that slimy rag don't have any. |
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Understanding just why is there a debate between computer art and fine art is what I am trying to do. |
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However, let it be known that I'm not merely trying to snobbishly intellectualise things. |
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The software makes intelligent guesses about the words you are trying to tap into the keyboard. |
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I was trying to make a connection from one train to another to stay in a certain hostile. |
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He becomes so absorbed in trying to interpret the allegory of the voyage of life that he fails to recognize the intemperance of his own course. |
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I wonder if the intended comedy is supposed to be in trying figure out if she's aware of what's going on. |
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Detectives are trying to establish who the intended victim was and believe he lives locally. |
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This intensifies the competition among workers trying to get work, and lowers wages. |
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These rapidly became forays into entrapment of innocent people fingered by prison snitches trying to get their sentences reduced. |
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When she got a few minutes away from planning the wedding, she was trying to set up the summer program for the planetarium. |
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She looked at him closely, peering intently at his face as if trying to read it. |
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Joey had his violin on the floor, and he was trying to blow some dust off the fingerboard. |
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And the Germans are hard working, conscientious, trying hard to be principled pragmatics, wearing history heavily on their shoulder. |
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I did a Masters straight after my BA as I was couldn't decide between finding a job and trying to finish my studies. |
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The bulb planter breaks the soil up nicely and is much easier than trying to use a trowel. |
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The last few conversations we had together consisted of trying to make some kind of sense of what was happening. |
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We are trying to set up a programme which will be interesting and exciting for them. |
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I flashed a sweet plastic smile and turned away, trying to walk on unsteady feet towards the door leading to the elevator banks. |
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Williams took a deep breath, interlacing his fingers above his head and trying to keep a cool head. |
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Firefighters are still trying to build a nine-mile fire line around the blaze. |
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With ratios in some accountancy firms of one partner to 20 employees, trying to make the grade may seem like mission impossible. |
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During the interval the referee walked the pitch trying to decide whether there was enough light for play to continue. |
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Big Oil is hardly blameless and at the start was no doubt trying to play both ends against the middle. |
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He was a man out of control trying to make sense of what he did by playing by his own rules. |
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Was there anything to be gained by playing for time, trying to learn more of what he might be facing? |
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I was trying to play it cool, but once we'd landed and were whisked away to our Grandstand seats, I degenerated into excited schoolboy mode. |
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Rocky Carlini grounded to the third baseman, but was distracted enough trying to hold Freeman, that he overthrew to first base. |
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Was he simply play-acting, trying to keep expectations low so he would be underestimated? |
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He has sought to deflect criticism from himself by trying to internationalise the conflict. |
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But they are not on the field or trying to absorb some of the Homeric playbooks around the league. |
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I know the NFL is trying to clean up the game a little bit, but they have to let the players play the game. |
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More than ever, software companies and consultancies are trying to sell small businesses on supply-chain management. |
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The FBI is trying to get permission, and money, to become a major player in the intelligence area. |
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Love for others through playful conflict is the very basis of what I have been trying to achieve over the past 30 years. |
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All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves. |
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I'm kneeling by the end of this pool, with my hands in the water, trying to grab hold of this monster to fish it out of there. |
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She's very much a fish out of water and she's trying to manage a personal life as well as be good at her job. |
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The band is trying to break into the massive Continental market after a string of UK gigs were axed because of poor ticket sales. |
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However, the study team concluded women who spent years trying to conceive were 2.7 times more likely to develop ovarian cancer. |
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We are trying to resolve the issues to try to ensure further continuance of a major company. |
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Maybe I was too intimidated to help out, or maybe I was still trying to digest it all. |
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I walked back into the room and sat on the bed, trying to put all the facts together. |
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There I plonked myself back in the seat I was in before, desperately trying to recall every exact detail of recent past events. |
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In all its intractability, this is the conversation that so many in so many different extra-governmental forums are now trying to ignite. |
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I clenched my fists tightly, trying to use the agony of my nails digging into the skin to deter me from my current situation. |
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The current government, as well as regulators, have been trying to find a way out of their contractual obligations. |
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He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth. |
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Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom. |
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I spent most of the night trying not to be sick and catching a few fitful hours of sleep, but I was much better by the next day. |
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I had thought earlier that I might be able to get to sleep, but after 2 hours of trying fitfully, I am giving in. |
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I think he's too entrenched in the system to be dynamic about trying to get out of it. |
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I plucked at the sleeve of the jacket Roop had given me, trying to think of a change in conversation. |
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I sat with the lute in my lap, trying to reach for forgotten notes as my fingers plucked the strings. |
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But the plucky pensioner fought back, trying to push his attacker back outside his front door. |
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Now staff at the surgery where she is being treated are trying to find a good home for the plucky pet who has already won their hearts. |
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That is precisely the kind of intricacy that they're trying to hash out now. |
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Instead of bailing water out of the leaky vessel, Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown are trying to plug the leak. |
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Therefore, trying to fill our emptiness with anything other than spiritual pursuits is like trying to plug a round hole with a square cork. |
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Xuan even contemplated trying to find workers outside China to plug the gap. |
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I am trying to think of an example of a contravention of this restraining order that would not turn upon presence in the premises. |
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A broad plug-ugly was trying to twist around, shaking and shimmying his forearm caught by her hands. |
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Its plumb crazy at a time when we are trying to recruit more staff to cut the teaching profession's workload. |
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The disputatious ceremony concludes, fittingly enough, with a traffic jam involving two processions trying to go in opposite directions. |
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Children who had plunged 30 feet off the bridge floundered in the muddy waters, trying to reach dry land. |
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Scientists involved in modelling climate change are trying to get a fix on how much the ice sheet has melted throughout history. |
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Pierce's horse, Arinex, was tied even more tightly, his head high as he reared and plunged, trying to get free. |
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Whenever someone invents something there are always going to be people out there trying to exploit that invention for evil intent. |
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I'm trying to be a lot more conversational than dictatorial, and this informality leads to these kind of slips. |
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The supermarket giant has apologised after trying to poach top chefs from some of Manchester's best restaurants. |
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I couldn't believe I was actually planning on still trying to convince her to do it. |
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This is the kind of convoluted wording that pops up on a regular basis, and my head still hurts trying to untangle it. |
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If I'm going to flake out as soon as I get home, then it's probably worth trying to write during my lunch break. |
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I swear I'm trying to keep convolution to a minimum here, but this is no game of fishing in the carnival ducky pond, no siree. |
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The pod of whales included several juveniles, five infants and two male adults trying to protect them. |
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An involuntary shudder racked her body, but she stood rigid, trying to appear as if she lacked the fear that she felt in her heart. |
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We are trying to encourage our involvement at the early stages of the design process. |
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The podium provided some support for him and he leaned against it heavily, trying to find what exactly he was supposed to be speaking into. |
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So I've started a mission to work my way through each cookery book, trying each recipe that sounds edible. |
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The poet is trying to write a poem but he does not know what he is trying to say until he has said it and recognised it. |
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If he expects people ultimately to respect his judgment, he had better stop trying to flannel at every opportunity. |
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His goal was reward for keeping a cool head and desperately trying to be in the right place at the right time. |
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Jake was cowering under the bridge, shivering, and panting, but trying to keep his cool and not blow his cover. |
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He has been having a quiet tournament, but the point is that he has not been trying to take centre stage. |
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There's no point in trying to take them for money because they don't have any. |
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Thousands of Iraqi exiles living in Jordan and Syria are trying to return home to defend their country. |
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You're trying to give advice and listen to his concerns, then turn around and be the person who's the point man on the negotiations. |
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Perhaps he was trying to win too flashily, or perhaps he had one too many vodkas the night before. |
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A scientist who served seven years in prison for trying to poison his wife has secured a job teaching ethics, university officials said today. |
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A North Yorkshire training company has been chosen to act as a safeguard against terrorists trying to poison the food chain. |
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Imagine prehistoric apes trying to bake a cake, or a young caveman putting up a flat-packed bookcase. |
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I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair. |
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Peter combed his dark brown hair, trying to flatten the back and sides, but as usual it remained up turned. |
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The stubborn coot had me trying for six months, during which I wasn't whipped once. |
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There are no plans to get married though, even if Elliot has stopped trying to convert the boudoir into an ironmongers. |
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I spent most of my career as a prosecutor trying to weed out cops like this. |
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Despite their stuck-in-high-school doofiness, they were loyal friends who tried to do right by the girls, even as they were trying to cop a feel. |
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People in Cornwall will be parading about in horse costumes trying to cop a feel of the local farmer's daughter. |
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Our guess is that it wasn't until he saw her nearly naked that he recognised who he'd been trying to cop off with. |
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Apparently the US Army spent twenty years trying to make a dirty bomb and they gave up, because they couldn't get it to irradiate anyone. |
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It was indeed the coldest day that Challenger had yet experienced and in the violent seas she lay to under bare poles, just trying to survive. |
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That is where the problems start, with Tony Blair trying to find an illusory third way between two irreconcilable opinions. |
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A good deal of time is spent trying to catch shrimps, crabs and small flatties for the bucket all to be released. |
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There is nothing better than watching us trying to reproduce and copy big money US network TV type shows. |
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In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime. |
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Many are trying to regulate this and are using monitoring technology to police it. |
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Referees and their assistants have a very difficult job trying to police this law of the game. |
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Unfortunately, the police department is trying to shut down their investigation. |
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The problems have affected callers trying to contact police stations and the force headquarters in Edinburgh. |
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It is surprising that no one is even talking of trying the responsible policymakers for war crimes. |
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Irrigation before planting may work better than trying to irrigate the cover crop up. |
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An army of dirty children ran passed me, trying to chase a flea-bitten dog. |
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Her appearance as the conwoman trying to fleece lovelorn Fred of his money brought a variety of further TV offers. |
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However mostly in these classes I am trying to achieve a sense of flesh and bones, weightiness or muscle structure. |
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No, I cannot lay down with a hanger hooked on a zipper trying to mash my fleshy body into a dress too small for me. |
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In the meantime, I'm trying to keep the organization as flexible as possible. |
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The deciding run, in the fourth inning, came as Crabtree tripled after Longacre fell trying to make the catch and Kurowski flew to right. |
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