Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] i [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you trying to kill me off by degrees ? ’ |
| 2 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you trying to write me out of your life ? ’ |
| 4 | This bloke they are trying to set me up with . |
| 5 | They 're trying to buy me off in hopes I 'll bow to their idiotic new arrangements without a bleat . ’ |
| 6 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They spend their entire lives trying to match me up with the most unsuitable women you could possibly hope to meet . ’ |
| 9 | " Well , I do , " he said cheerfully , trying to snap me out of it , " and I 've bought the wine and everything . |
| 10 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're trying to get me off with her , ’ he said . |
| 12 | My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 13 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 14 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact , the really nasty bit was when I was walking across here , coming over the head of the cliff there with the wind trying to blow me out to sea again . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know it 's just I think he 's trying to make me out as a bad mother |
| 17 | All my friends would be busy with their ink erasers trying to scrub me out of their address books . |