Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] trying to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 2 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 3 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 4 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 5 | I 've been trying to . |
| 6 | We 've been trying to . |
| 7 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 8 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 9 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 10 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |