Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] try to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am trying to give people information about what 's happening inside their system , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | ‘ I am trying to give people information about what 's happening inside their system'PHOTOGRAPH : MANNI MASONS . |
| 3 | I am trying to give you hard facts , tell you how the traits of human personality are carried from parents to offspring , tell you accurately how the environment modifies inherited characteristics . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm trying to give it up . ’ |
| 5 | No thanks , I 'm trying to give them up : at IBM Corp , writes the Wall Street Journal , RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp chief executive Louis Gerstner ‘ may find some eerie parallels between RJS 's chief product , cigarettes , and IBM 's leading product , mainframes — both are high profit margin products with slumping sales that are sold mostly to long-time customers who ca n't break the habit , ’ it says . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to give it , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm trying to give them up . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah yeah I mean I 'm trying to give you a score here |
| 9 | I would , but I you know , I 'm trying to give butter up . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to give you an idea of how big the field is . |
| 11 | so I 'm trying to give you that one . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ Nora replied angrily , ‘ I was trying to give you a little surprise but you 've spoiled that now . ’ |
| 13 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |
| 14 | Wanting to tell people things , sincerely or not , does demand an awareness of the beliefs ( or disbeliefs ) you 're trying to give them : an awareness which most of the actions those beliefs combine with your desires to cause does n't demand at all . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know what you told the copper , what he told you , why you sent Sal down to Cawthorne 's place at the weekend , what you 're going to do about her now , what you intend doing about Alec Reynolds now that he 's dead and why you 're trying to give me the bum 's rush . |
| 16 | Putting a patch on is an easy way to get your dose of nicotine while you 're trying to give up . |
| 17 | ‘ I'thought you were trying to give it up . |
| 18 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 19 | I would n't want my son to lose touch with the notions of right and wrong that we are trying to give him . ’ |
| 20 | I thought the Conservative budget is a contemptible budget the people in the people voting or an increase in nursery provision increase in educational provision this is what we are trying to give , the Conservative party are trying to claw back , to cutting our budget , by two point six million pounds , that is not what people voted for and is not what people want . |
| 21 | If Tipton Scouts have written to us and said that under the grant that we 're trying to give tonight , towards . |
| 22 | We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors . |
| 23 | Really we 're trying to give young people a voice , put them in the driving seat . |
| 24 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 25 | ‘ It was as if they were trying to give us a clue , deliberately toying with us . ’ |
| 26 | If they were to try to give an answer to the question at the head of this section , they would probably try to give a general account of factors which encourage or discourage chickens from crossing roads . |
| 27 | He 's , he 's trying to give the impression that , that you need to do something immediately . |
| 28 | He looked at her intently and she assumed he was trying to give her courage . |