adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
who were...trying to kid
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We thought we could change the world. Just who were we trying to kid ?
won’t be for want of trying
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Well, if he doesn’t get the job it won’t be for want of trying !
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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The individual is always trying to reconcile his inner and outer world and lessen the anxiety of the internal situation.
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She's always trying to make trouble for me, because she's nothing but a jealous, vindictive old woman.
desperately
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Retching, vomiting and desperately trying to rub its face clean, the animal learns a lesson it never forgets.
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I was desperately trying to keep control but felt horribly threatened.
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So there he was, in a merchant bank, desperately trying to restore the family fortunes.
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Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already, desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work.
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Angel was now desperately trying to make his way as a professional polo player.
just
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Our aim is to prevent long-term unemployment, rather than just trying to cope with it after it has occurred.
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He was just trying to make himself sound big.
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Or was she just trying to make Catriona angry?
still
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He was still trying to persuade her to have a tap routine in the play.
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They're still trying to sort out what must have happened.
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Engineers are still trying to steer the craft into the correct path.
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Last night, accident investigators were still trying to find out what exactly caused the disaster.
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She was still trying to get out of the parking space.
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Regulators are still trying to get tougher about the junk in financial institutions' portfolios.
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Parapsychology is still trying to answer questions it first began to ask seriously a century ago.
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Mystified, Delaney, still trying to take in more details of the map, followed.
very
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These Nationalists! Very trying people.
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Even without pressure to go to bed, evenings with Olwyn are very trying .
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He has kept his nerve under very trying circumstances.
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The interview with Clare was very trying .
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The long drive in an ancient car must have been very trying .
when
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Congress is not at its best when trying to reconcile the special interests that flock round energy bills.
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We can use this knowledge to our advantage when trying to locate the beats.
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There are many different measures which could be chosen when trying to assess whether the North-South divide has widened.
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However, a consideration of this measure reveals the problems faced when trying to assess the extent of poverty.
■ NOUN
time
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What's a girl to do in these trying times ?
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Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops.
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Without wishing to understate what was surely a trying time for some students, I shall make two further points.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full/top marks for effort/trying/persistence etc
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You had to give Anthony top marks for persistence, she thought to herself.
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You had to give the woman full marks for persistence.
what is sb trying to prove?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The experience has been very trying for us.