Example sentences of "[adv] i [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I was trying to get the right money today , see so |
| 2 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was trying to make an amalgam of what was best in both of us . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was trying to stop you . |
| 5 | So I am trying to get the new librarian to push all those books into one section … and maybe we could have a trolley and push that around and have it in the lower school … |
| 6 | So I 'm trying to put in all the ingredients : left-handed guitar , all the original effects , Marshall amplifier , everything that Jimi used — go for authenticity from the beginning and then take it from there . |
| 7 | I 'm going away on Monday so I have n't allowed for all this so I 'm trying |
| 8 | Erm I 've had a quick look through so I 'm trying to remember er what we 've got coming . |
| 9 | so I 'm trying to do it |
| 10 | so I 'm trying to give you that one . |
| 11 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 12 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 13 | So I was trying to spare and it 's really the most coldest branch I 've ever been in . |
| 14 | So I was trying to help Audrey and that and help Herbie . |
| 15 | So I was trying not to talk . |
| 16 | I , I think it 's things like I was trying to do Setup last night , I was trying to set page length , you know paper size , and |
| 17 | ‘ Now I am trying to buy a flat for Katya there . |
| 18 | Now I am trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 19 | Now I am trying to achieve a much better parity between my private and public life . |
| 20 | I 've started the project and now I 'm trying to raise the money . |
| 21 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 22 | I was trying to conduct an interview , and now I 'm trying to explain to you that you 're not making it at all easy . |
| 23 | Right , now I 'm trying to say to you is , that if , if you write , you write all these things down , you 'll find that one thing wo n't react with another , you know we were talking about interacting |
| 24 | Excuse me please I 'm trying to cook , I have n't got enough potatoes . |
| 25 | Well I am trying . |
| 26 | Well I was trying to stick with the size as an expression of whether the concept is one that should be pursued , and whether that influences the pursuing of the concept , can we can we leave the , the number of settlements till , till later on ? |
| 27 | Well I was trying to find how old it was . |
| 28 | Well I was trying |
| 29 | Well I was trying to draw your attention , right she had pieces of pink paper right that was mi , and on the desk , on our side and on it it had a fe , erm it was she 'd she had received some er goods or something like that there , it was on a piece of pink paper and the signature on it was Houston ! |
| 30 | Well I 'm trying to gen you know just as a generalization now . |