Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , jus playing so that I was trying to like erm or P A B , or P A E B as th , . |
| 2 | Yes and you think you can move your fingers and you pull on them and you look down and I 'm trying to pull them now , but they just wo n't move . |
| 3 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 4 | For years I used to knit exactly the number of rows quoted in the instructions , especially when I was trying to get friendly with the machine . |
| 5 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 6 | I 'm going out tonight so I 'm trying to be well today . |
| 7 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 8 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 9 | Do n't run away when I 'm trying |
| 10 | But just as I was trying to explain it to her , they repeated the telephone number , so I rang them up . |
| 11 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 12 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 13 | Nothing can bring David back but I 'm trying to stop it happening to someone else . |
| 14 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 15 | I done that numerous times today but I 'm trying to do it right by keeping it going all the time when I 'm likely to be in conversation , so there are occasional blank spaces on the tapes . |
| 16 | And Phil was thinking I wonder whether this is about and I 'm trying to think of the next question . |
| 17 | I can not do it yet but I am trying to come round to it . |