Example sentences of "[pron] i [be] trying " in BNC.

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1 And compact I would like to think that when we 've looked at the kids and what 's required in the I A P that we can have an industry day with them I 'm trying , I 'm suggesting er , in January .
2 I I 'm trying
3 Erm what I what I 'd like to , I mean I 've written out in rough you know , what I 'd like to send out to departments with the the the homework timetable and it 's just , you know I I 'm trying to say to the members of staff I do n't wan na interfere with the way that they organise their departments or their classrooms but I want to propose , you know that things like all seventh year classes should have one homework per subject per week .
4 I 'm try I 'm I I I I 'm trying to stay with need and purpose .
5 You see I think if I I 'm trying to en envisage it , if you are erm you , you live in an area and er there have been some er outbreaks of violence of , you know , a nasty nature , some people have been killed , there 's been sort of erm disruption and er and so on , I do n't know how you 'd feel , I think you may feel erm a bit concerned about this , you 'd see things breaking down and you would n't see quite where it 's going to , to lead .
6 I I was trying to show how tight
7 This in front of someone I am trying to impress with my good health , my vivacious vitality , my lack of need to be there .
8 Which I 'm trying to avoid not to do .
9 But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October .
10 which I 'm trying to encourage that , you know , there 's not sort of
11 How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live .
12 In the idealised world of childhood , to which I was trying to get or get back , neither death nor sexuality existed except as unwarranted intrusions , and all was a paradisal oneness , where to be individual and autonomous meant the same as to be accepted and understood .
13 The lady who I was trying to get hold of who 's actually got the contract that er we want amended , for some reason I .
14 ‘ Sweet , it 's you I 'm trying to protect . ’
15 I hope that does n't sound surprising because its very unsurprisingness is something I am trying to keep hold of .
16 It was something I was trying to forget . ’
17 This is something I was trying to get clarified but I do n't care really as long as somebody gets it .
18 ‘ It 's something I 'm trying to forget . ’
19 So this is not something I 'm even trying to tell you : it 's something I 'm trying to show you , by drawing your attention to it !
20 Perhaps a working demonstration might highlight something I 'm trying to .
21 I also think he probably thought that it might help to ease the tension erm in Northern Ireland , whether it did or not I leave as an open debate and I do n't think there was just a single motive for President Clinton 's decision , but the one I was trying to demonstrate which was hit straight away was there was a domestic element , a des domestic political element in the decision .
22 Cos there was one in July and I suspected it would clash with holidays , which it probably does , so the November one I 'm trying for .
23 I told him I was trying to work it out .
24 I know I 'm trying for it I 'm trying for it .
25 Do you understand what I am trying to tell you , that I was filled with distaste for everything ?
26 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 .
27 One couplet sums up what I am trying to say .
28 In general I shall recognize what is , not what ought to be ; but certainly I ought to be aware of what I am trying to do , why I want it , how to do it , whether it can be done .
29 What I am trying to say is that the anorexic has sufficient sense of identity to know that identity is something to be fought for — by whatever means .
30 What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture .
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