Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [be] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which I 'm trying to avoid not to do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | which I 'm trying to encourage that , you know , there 's not sort of |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do you understand what I am trying to tell you , that I was filled with distaste for everything ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One couplet sums up what I am trying to say . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 13 | What I am trying to illustrate is the fact that teachers will mostly admit , if they are feeling bold enough , that they want to feel that they are doing something important , that other people think so too , that a fair bit of the time they are doing it well , and that they are getting better at it . |
| 14 | Third , although some comparison between my present experience and others is necessary for me to know what words to use in description , and although such comparison , especially in the case where the objects compared are a past and a present experience , is fallible ( since memory is fallible ) , still the comparison is not what I am trying to express when I try to express my beliefs about my present experience alone . |
| 15 | What I am trying to argue , however , is that the issue is not merely one of numbers , but one of culture . |
| 16 | What I am trying to argue is that in Germany the contradiction between bourgeoisie and civil society — as exemplified above in the contradiction of state and cultural modernism — was much much sharper than elsewhere . |
| 17 | That is precisely what I am trying to do , if I may . |
| 18 | And before you , you have that update what I am trying to do is to list all of the recommendations we obtained in respect of the report and they are actually three - one , to three - twenty and then we put paragraph two on each of those recommendations to bring you up to date on what the service is doing . |
| 19 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 20 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 21 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 23 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what I 'm trying to explain . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's what I 'm trying to tell you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That 's what I 'm trying to tell you , ’ Arty said , with a touch of desperation in his voice . |
| 27 | I 've got power , but that 's not what I 'm trying to portray . |
| 28 | What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space . |
| 29 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 30 | They were not expecting anything is what I 'm trying to say . |