Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only difference between us is that I am trying to be , and you ca n't help it . ’ |
| 2 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 3 | It is this belief that I am trying to express , for it is an art which is applicable to any enterprise of any size in any area of life 's activities . |
| 4 | The point that I am trying to make is that the experience that they are gaining , by working and living with their people , day in and day out , will give them a depth of understanding which , sadly , no amount of university training would give . |
| 5 | I pretend to believe in living in my room , but it 's true that I am trying to thrust myself on stage . |
| 6 | Can I put to you , Mrs , my problems as an inspector on this , and perhaps then you 'll understand you know why it is that I am trying to get this er all written material before the end of the enquiry . |
| 7 | You know that I am trying to bring up these girls to be strong , patient and unselfish . |
| 8 | He knows the pressures that we are under and that I am trying to do my best to improve some of the apparent weaknesses . |
| 9 | ‘ The reason , Ranulf , ’ Corbett announced softly , his face only a few inches from his servant 's , ‘ is that I am trying to find out if , from some eighteen months ago , the ale-masters and tavern-keepers along this highway remember two foreigners , a young woman and her male companion . |
| 10 | That is precisely the point that I am trying to make . |
| 11 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 12 | Bearing the above statement in mind , take my tutor group as a fairly typical example of the point that I 'm trying to make . |
| 13 | But it 's not that I 'm trying to distance myself because I do n't want to be linked directly with that character . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it suits me for Louis to believe I have problems , and that I 'm trying to forget them in the arms of an attractive young woman I 'm not willing to share . ’ |
| 15 | And I think the police would be fairly sympathetic when I explain that I 'm trying to protect my wife from someone who sends sick , threatening letters . ’ |
| 16 | In case you think I eat a lot I 'll reel you my standard excuse , which is that I 'm trying to put on weight for rugby . |
| 17 | The point that I 'm trying to make is that Johnson made it plain , yes , that greed makes you gullible , lust makes you gullible , er er , you will be conned , but nobody gets punished . |
| 18 | The look that I 'm trying to get is a sort of pinky-mauvey look on this lovely , sort of wine coloured cloth . |
| 19 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 20 | He thought that I was trying to provoke him . |
| 21 | I found that I was trying to achieve two somewhat incompatible objectives . |
| 22 | Not that I was trying to hide where she came from , but I did n't want her to be singled out . |
| 23 | I supposed that I was trying to catch my wave as well . |
| 24 | You 'd have imagined from all the interest on his face that I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection . |
| 25 | I explained that I was trying to understand the part tears play in our lives . |
| 26 | It was mainly books that I was trying to preserve . |
| 27 | told that I was trying to get an appointment at the asthma clinic but they could n't get one for fortn another full week . |
| 28 | That was the point that I was trying to make . |
| 29 | It was a fibre tip refill that I was trying to get but I did n't buy a fibre tip refill |
| 30 | And er , jus playing so that I was trying to like erm or P A B , or P A E B as th , . |