That is the sense his brain tried to make out of what lay before them.

I could practically hear her brain trying to figure out how to get the money together.

"He'd pick my brain trying to see how the investigation was going."

His slow brain tried to look back over the preceding days.

The brain is trying to make sense of what little information it has coming in.

That could only be same other brain, trapped like his, trying to move their common body in another direction.

Sara felt her brain trying to make a connection but she could not understand why.

God, he had wracked his brain trying to remember her last name.

Thank you, I was racking my brain trying to remember.

I've been racking my brain trying to remember, and the name means nothing.