Example sentences of "[be] try [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Henry , ’ said Elinor , now blocking her mouth with the palm of her hand and moaning elaborately , ‘ you 're trying to be funny ! |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Any time you do a record , or any time you practise anything new , you 're trying to be better at what you do . |
| 4 | Most advertising applies a lot of peer group pressure : if you are the successful executive you 're trying to be , you must fly British Airways rather than the red-eye . |
| 5 | Talbot said : ‘ If you 're trying to be encouraging , Professor , you 're not doing too well at it . ’ |
| 6 | I think there 's a great cult of perfection amongst women , that they 're trying to be all |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | You 're in a mess , William , and you 're trying to be devious with me . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 're trying to be honest , ’ Henry said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 're trying to be everything and they 're pushing it away cos it 's not what they really want and they , I mean , all , all you can get from him is how marvellous , you 're right , how marvellous his brothers are and yet , what I 've heard of the brothers they 're not |
| 12 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to be clear . |
| 14 | And I 'm trying to be serious today . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm trying to be calm and … and helpful for us all round . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm trying to be relaxed like Frank Edwards [ also of Repton ] and get a lazy jab like his . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 18 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 19 | I 'm not being coy ; I 'm trying to be useful . |
| 20 | ‘ Matthew , I 'm trying to be very understanding and modern about this , but I want you to realize that for women of my generation , it 's difficult to accept the prevailing mores . ’ |
| 21 | No we get we get a lot of erm sort of similar questions I 'm no I 'm trying I 'm trying to be it 's only just me . |
| 22 | I 'm trying to be very good but er I can only so much of that ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'm going out tonight so I 'm trying to be well today . |
| 25 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 26 | Though his critics maintain they were trying to be constructive and wanted him to stay , Sutton was convinced that the criticism had been organized in advance as a warning that if he did not go , as Pilger was demanding , they would make life hell for him . |
| 27 | There seemed to be a great urgency to get married , to live in London and start a family because we were trying to be the same as everyone else . |
| 28 | They were trying to be advisers and salesmen at once . |
| 29 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 30 | The teachers tried to put life into our lessons and some of the people in my form were trying to be funny as well . |