Example sentences of "[pron] [be] try [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 2 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 3 | And I 'm trying to be serious today . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not being coy ; I 'm trying to be useful . |
| 5 | Yes and they they provided me with boxes of tapes and batteries and eh Walkman and so on and so forth and eh , I 'm trying to be conscientious . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to be calm and … and helpful for us all round . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm trying to be clear . |
| 8 | ‘ I was trying to be polite . |
| 9 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
| 10 | I was trying to be cool , but the statues were not funny to me . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I have got to express my admiration to residential staff who are trying to be positive and ensure the residents do n't suffer . |
| 12 | One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 're trying to be honest , ’ Henry said . |
| 14 | I said , ‘ Oh for Chris'sakes , shut up I know you 're trying to be nice to me and help me , but please do n't because you 're just giving me a headache . ’ |
| 15 | Talbot said : ‘ If you 're trying to be encouraging , Professor , you 're not doing too well at it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Henry , ’ said Elinor , now blocking her mouth with the palm of her hand and moaning elaborately , ‘ you 're trying to be funny ! |
| 17 | You 're in a mess , William , and you 're trying to be devious with me . |
| 18 | ‘ You can exclude me from the all round , Mother ; and I think it 's a little late for you to say you 're trying to be calm and helpful . |
| 19 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 20 | Yes , she 's trying to be nosy . |
| 21 | ‘ You realize she 's trying to be unbearable so that your husband sees they get a move on with her house ? ’ |
| 22 | She was trying to be friendly , to show me that she , too , could be human and silly . |
| 23 | Fenella was thinking it , but she was trying to be sensible and practical . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 25 | A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather . |
| 26 | He sounded like a man who was trying to be brave after his marriage had just fallen apart . |
| 27 | We are trying to be economical and do n't want to waste postage for those who no longer want to support the scheme , so please get in touch with either Helen ( 632 8214 ) or Theresa ( 638 5882 ) . |
| 28 | But we are trying to be sensible . |
| 29 | If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication , we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind . |
| 30 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |