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

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1 Can you see the point I am trying to make ?
2 The point I am trying to make from all this is that to win a karate bout needs two things — your ability to defeat the opponent and the referee panel 's ability to recognise your superior performance .
3 The point I am trying to make is that both suicide of the schizoid type and anorexia nervosa involve a denial of reality which depends upon an acceptance of a split between self and body , and is only possible through paradox .
4 The point I am trying to make all the time is that erosion and deposition have frequently in the past been very short-term phenomena .
5 The point I 'm trying to make is that A&R depts only know a ‘ hit ’ when it gets to No 4 in the national charts .
6 The point I 'm trying to make is that you can train a bird of prey to do only certain things .
7 No , the point I 'm trying to make is this : everyone else around here has changed their name .
8 Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe .
9 But that 's the very point I 'm trying to make , ’ Jacob threw back at her .
10 So the point I 'm trying to make is that you ca n't rely on one product to do the whole job .
11 Really what the point I 'm trying to make is training objectives are about doing something .
12 Yeah but but the point I 'm trying to make is that it seems to me that if we 're continually spending money on advertising , we 're creating another problem elsewhere .
13 People making decisions for you at that level , but the point I 'm trying to make is our society 's much more complicated and much more sophisticated now in the way that arrangements are made , the decision making for the community .
14 but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time .
15 ‘ The point I 'm trying to make is — ’
16 No because the the point I 'm trying to make is that it is unrealistic surely for the leader of the party to say to his MPs who are n't delegates after all , but who represent the interests of their constituencies , Shut up , come to me privately if you have any concerns .
17 That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right
18 The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms .
19 And er that puts some obligation on Notts next week and then er in December to do well when they 're in Italy erm also an obligation to do well now , but bu get back to the point I 'm trying make .
20 The other point I 'm trying to say is that we have to insure with a Department of Trade approved insurer , so that should anything , for any reason , ever happen to ourselves or a company , then the insurance company is still responsible for the claims and will meet them .
21 The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view .
22 Well , that 's , that 's up to you , but the , what , the point I 'm trying to make is that I think it 's important that you actually consider that before the interview is , is ever , ever takes place , because otherwise you could be caught very flat-footed .
23 ‘ The point I was trying to make , ’ she persisted hotly , ‘ was that my off-duty time is surely my own . ’
24 Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this .
25 Erm and that 's I suppose was the point I was trying to make earlier that al that 's why abusers sometimes find it very easy because they 're able to tap into a lot of the ways in which we treat children um y'know so er
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