Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] try do be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 2 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 3 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 4 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 5 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 6 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 7 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 8 | What I 'm trying to do is rub against the grain of Thatcherism , not with it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What I 'm trying to do is not to revive that , but to use the conventions in a modern context ; flexible , fluid symbols , which can be read in numerous ways . ’ |
| 10 | All I 'm trying to do is to establish where your father 's Datsun was on that night , and then stop wasting your time . ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ All I 'm trying to do is to find a solution to the problems we 're bound to run into if we 're living under the same roof , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 13 | A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work . |
| 14 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 15 | if it 's really tight , slipping the clutch in first and what I 'm trying to do is I 'm trying to control it on the accelerator , you ca n't do it . |
| 16 | What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well . |
| 17 | Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible . |
| 18 | ‘ What I was trying to do was reflect our extraordinary lives now , when so many people have several marriages . |
| 19 | Definitely erm what I was trying to do was not do what I 've been doing which is to jerk . |
| 20 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 21 | What you are trying to do is to develop an employee who thinks for himself . |
| 22 | What you 're trying to do is indicate to them how best you might be able to work your way through those controversies to be able to make some statement of policy or some recommendation and the like … . |
| 23 | Erm we er you know had a situation you so er we 've had moments when you get very irritated with one another because what you 're trying to do is n't succeeding and because you always blame the other folk . |
| 24 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 25 | On a technical basis sooner than later , and what you 're trying to do is to understand the design and development process |
| 26 | What we are trying to do is to excite , giving black women a voice , in mime . |
| 27 | ‘ What we are trying to do is provide women with the sort of club environment that men are used to and they are not , so that they can relax and talk about business . |
| 28 | ‘ What we are trying to do is to relay six miles of track from Meenglass to Donegal … the Barnsmoor Gap , plus renovate the old coaches still in existence , some of which are now holiday homes and hen houses ! ’ |
| 29 | And what we are trying to do is attract other business into that floor space . |
| 30 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |