Example sentences of "[conj] i am trying [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pretend to believe in living in my room , but it 's true that I am trying to thrust myself on stage . |
| 2 | He knows the pressures that we are under and that I am trying to do my best to improve some of the apparent weaknesses . |
| 3 | Can I put to you , Mrs , my problems as an inspector on this , and perhaps then you 'll understand you know why it is that I am trying to get this er all written material before the end of the enquiry . |
| 4 | You know that I am trying to bring up these girls to be strong , patient and unselfish . |
| 5 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 7 | It is this belief that I am trying to express , for it is an art which is applicable to any enterprise of any size in any area of life 's activities . |
| 8 | The point that I am trying to make is that the experience that they are gaining , by working and living with their people , day in and day out , will give them a depth of understanding which , sadly , no amount of university training would give . |
| 9 | That is precisely the point that I am trying to make . |
| 10 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 11 | I have had my experience in Russia and I am trying to create here , what I had there . |
| 12 | I reiterate that we should have a Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee and I am trying to relate the new clause to my believe that we should have an overall consultative committee . |
| 13 | ‘ I myself , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ am probably far more bowled over by what you did than you are , and I am trying to find some reasonable explanation. ! ’ |
| 14 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 15 | It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom . |
| 16 | Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman is right about the significance of that age group , but I am trying to point out that the age for offending has become very young . |
| 18 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 19 | But I am trying to work out when I can walk Paul Buttle 's circuit of the Lakes , devised especially for Outdoor Action . |
| 20 | ‘ But I am trying to get another business off the ground . ’ |
| 21 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 22 | I can not do it yet but I am trying to come round to it . |
| 23 | Of course , that job had to be done professionally — by a local man , because I am trying to use local contractors wherever possible . |
| 24 | ‘ All this , ’ he adds , ‘ apropos of the drunken caterwauling in the kitchen from J and his cronies while I am trying to read Gide 's Journal on a Saturday evening . ’ |
| 25 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |