Example sentences of "[be] trying [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 3 | Er it would be some of the bodies I think oh er wait a minute I 'm trying to think what the casting were be used for there were other things besides locks you see I forget what they the , I know they used to do the castings and the brass castings it would be for the locks , for the locks yeah |
| 4 | ‘ By now , both the Americans and the Russians will be trying to discover who the Lucy Ghosts are , ’ Billie took over . |
| 5 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 6 | Eddington paused , then replied , " I am trying to think who the third person is . " ) |
| 7 | WITH a good deal of head-scratching , with a shuffle here and a waffle there , America 's diplomats are trying to decide what the country 's European policy should be . |
| 8 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 10 | What I 'm trying to do is trying to get it the way it will be in an exam so , cos in an exam you 're |
| 11 | If he 's trying to find you the cheapest |
| 12 | His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life . |
| 13 | Everyone , save Babs Osborne , understood that her Polish lover was trying to give her the push . |
| 14 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 15 | I found I was trying to announce it the I 'd this and I 'd that in there . |
| 16 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |